Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secure (and far more expensive) Army helicopters that are at his disposal. The owner of the charter service, Tom Peterson, is a kind of south Georgia bush pilot who has been flying Carter around for years. But his relaxed attitude and unorthodox procedures (he sometimes flies his twin-engine Cessna 310 without a copilot) have caused agents assigned to Carter to consume more antacid than usual. A recent Carter flight from Senator Herman Talmadge's Georgia plantation back to Plains was a case in point. Because Plains was socked in with bad weather, Pilot Peterson originally planned...
...Humble. Rather than drag the whole group to remote Plains, Ga., Jimmy Carter instead deferentially flew up to the appropriately named town of Lovejoy, near Atlanta, braving heavy rains in a small Cessna 310. But Carter was far from a humble supplicant awed by his visitors. "Gentlemen," he told the legislators, "I want you to know that I'm going to be a good President. I have confidence in my own ability. I can run this nation." At another point in the private three-hour discussion, Carter declared: "I want no wars while I am President. I want...
...Oneida claim to 300,000 acres in New York State, the Narraganset claim to 3,200 acres in Rhode Island and the Western Pequot claim to 800 acres in Connecticut. Says Tureen, who lives in a farmhouse outside Calais, Me., but flies about new England in his own Cessna: "It's their land. Legally it's theirs, and they can have it back...
That night, after dining privately with a small group of potential backers at a Holiday Inn, Carter took commercial flights to Washington and then on to Atlanta. Finally, by a chartered twin-engine Cessna, he flew 110 miles south to Americus and drove to his home town of Plains, arriving at nearly 2 a.m. He had been going for almost 20 hours. Wife Rosalynn had returned to Plains only a few hours earlier, having completed a separate campaign swing of her own to Kentucky. As he fell into bed that night. Jimmy Carter might have been forgiven...
...travel from New York to Keokuk is getting harder," observes Cessna's Meyer. Keokuk, however, is precisely the kind of place where many executives need to go, as corporations decentralize operations. J. Lynn Helms, president of Piper, based in Lock Haven, Pa., tells of executives of an Ohio company who had to visit a plant in Mississippi several times a week. Their door-to-door travel time was reduced from eleven hours to 3½ hours after the company began flying them direct in its own Piper...