Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another member of the small company of light-plane adventurers set a record last week. Peter Gluckmann, 33, a San Francisco watchmaker, piloted a single-engine Cessna 172 from Oakland to Honolulu in 20 hr. 39 min., thus became just about the biggest man (250 lbs.) to fly the smallest plane (145 h.p.) over the longest distance (2,400 miles) of open water...
Okay, American . . . This is Cessna 163. American, you're pulling ahead...
...admission, 24-year-old Guy L. Stultz "didn't have the brains to be worried." There he was, in a Cessna 120, flying at 4,000 ft. in bright morning sunshine above a solid overcast, over the Helderberg Mountains of New York. Married, father of three small children, an appliance-installation man, Stultz wanted more than anything in the world to be a commercial pilot. Under the G.I. Bill, he began taking flying lessons. This day, with 67 solo hours, he was on a cross-country solo hop, from Mansfield to Albany, to Buffalo and back...
American 215, be advised that Cessna 163 is being flown by a student pilot on his first cross-country flight. He advises us that he has only one hour and five minutes of fuel left...
...Cessna 163, fly 019° magnetic. We are going to try to intercept you in your course line that you are now flying. Keep...