Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trainer. To Wichita's Cessna Aircraft Co., the Air Force awarded a contract to develop the first jet-powered primary training plane. Powered by two French Turbomeca engines the trainer will have a top speed of more than 403 m.p.h. Cessna expects to have it ready for its first flight in September...
...father's partner in the operation of a 22,400-acre spread west of the Pecos River. He was married, had a three-year-old daughter, was about to become a father again. He seemed calm as he left Sweetwater's airport in his four-passenger Cessna 170 at 5:30 one morning this week...
...clear, bitter-cold Wednesday. Ike put on his old battle jacket-with no rank insigne, but still sporting the flaming-sword shoulder patch of SHAPE -and wool Army trousers, then added a fur-lined Army field parka and a pile hat. First, he flew off in a little L19 Cessna for a look at the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing (where he asked about the capabilities of MIGs), then on to a briefing at the 1st Marine Division's command post, six miles from the front and well within ground-shaking distance of Marine artillery and aerial rocket fire...
Better Bird Dog. Cessna Aircraft Co. flight-tested a two-passenger plane powered by Boeing's small turboprop engine, the world's first turboprop light plane. A piston-powered model of the plane, the "Bird Dog" has been widely used in Korea on observation missions. The turboprop version, which has a cruise rating of 175 h.p., is lighter than earlier models, and has somewhat longer range and can operate on all grades and ranges of fuel, a big advantage in combat zones...
...Philadelphia, a small Cessna plane stood by to carry the pages to Idlewild Airport, where they were put aboard a flight scheduled to arrive in Paris early Thursday afternoon. Other page proofs were flown from Los Angeles to Honolulu and Tokyo, and from Idlewild to Miami, to be transferred to a chartered Pan American flight for Cuba. Stories were also cabled directly from the U.S. to Paris and Tokyo, as a safeguard against delays in air traffic. Buried in the mass of detail these arrangements involved, TIME Production Chief Bert Chapman confessed: "At a time like this, I carry...