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They taxied not in a taxi, though, but in the Cessna 170 they keep in the backyard hangar. The neighbors find nothing odd about that. They have airplanes in their backyards...
...Atlantic and Pacific, covered 22,858.8 miles with 21 stops and become the first woman in history to fly solo around the world. Mrs. Mock had moxie. A pilot for only seven years, the petite blonde had logged just 750 solo hours before setting out. Her single-engine Cessna 180, Spirit of Columbus, was eleven years old, and even Lloyd's of London refused to underwrite the trip. Why had she chosen a small plane like that? Simple, the mother of three explained: "We happened...
Died. Ken Hubbs, 22, second baseman for the Chicago Cubs, National League Rookie of the Year in 1962 (he set a major-league record by playing 78 consecutive games without an error); when the Cessna 172 he was flying home to California crashed in a storm; near Prove, Utah...
...about making up his mind. He overcomes a problem by attacking it with dogged tenacity, painstakingly learning all the facts, then turning them over slowly in his mind many times until they fit together into a decision-a decision that often comes to him on horseback or in his Cessna, which he sometimes uses (with a hired pilot) to get up into the clouds to think...
...stations along the runway. Into the control tower rushed Lou Domenico, 41, an ex-Air Force flight instructor and owner of Cheyenne's Sky Harbor Air Service. He was about to give the most important flying lesson of his career, a life-or-death radio exchange with the Cessna. Excerpts...