Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helmeted pilot waited for the thumbs-up sign from a frizzy-haired native, then raced his blue and white Cessna down the crushed-coral airstrip, over the palm-dotted swamplands, and high into the sky to hurdle the jagged mountain peaks concealed in thick cumulus clouds. Settling his sandaled feet on the rudder, he flew with one hand as the other fingered a heavy gold cross hanging from his neck. After a short flight-over forbidding jungles, the pilot banked his plane, swooped down toward a clearing and made a smooth touchdown on another makeshift airfield. There to greet...
...Colorado's jagged San Juan Mountains, Ranger Steve Yurich, 34, flew off in a Cessna for a quick fire-spotting swing around his Piedra district, switched to a pickup truck to check the camp sites and flag down a logging truck, then saddled up his horse, "Buck," to inspect the grassy uplands where ranchers will graze 2,800 head of cattle and 7,000 sheep this summer under.permit from the Forest Service...
...plane or a jet transport on a nightclub napkin. In 1950, despite his well-earned reputation as a stay-up-all-night playboy, he won the Collier Trophy for distinguished service to aviation as a designer-manufacturer. In 1956 he achieved a different kind of notoriety by flying his Cessna 310 to Moscow on an impromptu tourist trip (TIME, July 9, 1956), stirred up a storm in Washington, which feared, wrongly, that he planned to sell the Russians his products...
During the first quarter of 1959, Cessna sold more airplanes (958) than the rest of the Big Four manufacturers (Beech, Piper, Aero) together. Today Cessna accounts for 53.9% of this market. This fall Cessna, which now manufactures seven private planes ranging in price from $7,000 to $60,000, will introduce an eighth, the Cessna 210, in hopes of grabbing an even bigger share of the market. The 210 is the first high-wing, single-engine private craft with a retractable landing gear. It cruises at 190 m.p.h. Price: about...
...Cessna's performance is proof that the private-aircraft industry, which sprouted like a teen-ager after 1951 (TIME, Feb. 17, 1958), has finally matured. Last year, despite the recession, U.S. private-plane manufacturers delivered 6,416 planes, up 300 over 1957, raked in $101.5 million v. $99.7 million in 1957. In January, the latest month reported, they sold 100 more planes and grossed $2,500,000 more than in January 1958. The recession proved that for the businessman, the private plane is not a luxury but a necessity. U.S. businessmen have taken to the air in such numbers...