Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-place Cessna 180 descended toward a landing at Wyoming's Minuteman Missile Site B6. Down and down it went, faster and faster. Too fast. One of the passengers leaned toward veteran Pilot Edgar Van Keuren. The pilot's eyes were open-but sightless. He was dead of a stroke...
...very convincing. So I jumped from a Cessna 182 at 2500 feet with a 28-foot "skydiver" parachute over the Mansfield airport grounds. Mansfield is the headquarters for the Cambridge Parachute Club, the oldest club of its type in the country, having been formed...
Winging from town to town in a Cessna, Yarborough assailed Connally as ''a confessed lobbyist for Eastern oil and gas monopolies, nursed in the smoke-filled room and weaned on the big lie technique." One such "lie," declared Yarborough, was Connally's press-conference plea at the 1960 Democratic Convention for delegates to vote for Johnson because Jack Kennedy suffered from "a death-dealing disease." Conflicting religious rumors about Connally were widespread: 1) he had quit as President Kennedy's Navy Secretary because he is anti-Catholic; 2) he is a Catholic himself. (Connally...
...very convincing. So I jumped from a Cessna 182 at 2500 feet with a 28-foot "skydiver" parachute over the Mansfield airport grounds. Mansfield is the headquarters for the Cambridge Parachute Club, the oldest club of its type in the country, having been formed...
...setback for Miami's Harris in a one-man war he has been waging against Castro's Cuba. In the past five months. Harris has seized ten Cuban planes flown to the U.S. by defectors-five C46 cargo planes, three Piper Cubs, a DC-3B and a Cessna 180-as well as 3.5 million lbs. of lard purchased in the U.S. by Cuba and intercepted in Florida. He has sold these items for $200,000, is thus nearly halfway through his drive to recover $429,000 due him from the Cuban government because of a 1959 advertising contract...