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...antique aircraft (pre-Pearl Harbor). At the Merced Municipal Airport in central California, 1,500 aircraft turned up for Merced's sixth annual Antique Fly-In. "That's the kind of plane we should get next," said a woman to her husband, indicating a blue, open-cockpit Stearman PT-17 trainer some 20-odd years old. "Everything these days has two engines, five radios and windshield wipers," complained Pete Bowers, 45, an engineer for Boeing. "That's fine for traveling, but not for flying." Then he climbed into his 1912 Bullock-Curtis tri-wing pusher, bounced...
...Maiden) has $40 million by saying: "All us girls have our price." Dolores does not care if the baron is really an international jewel thief who has been using her as a diamond drop, "because I happen to be in love with you." And when Pamela stomps into the cockpit to tell Pilot O'Brian that "there are plenty of other men in the world," he probably would have slugged her if he had not been busy driving the plane...
...month by September. Price: $1,425. > For those who would rather hover than sink: a flying machine that never gets more than 9 in. off the ground. The Dobson Air Dart is a 95-lb. wheelless bug, 8 ft. long and 5 ft. wide, with a kayak-style cockpit and a zo-h.p. engine that drives a fan in the bug's nose. The fan supports the vehicle on a column of air by the same principle as the larger air-supported vehicles under development for military and commercial transportation. Designed strictly for fun, the Dart can whoosh...
...crowds were big, and listened intently, but rarely demonstratively. Issues ran deep, and touched off demagoguery, anxiety, and an impressive civic concern. A country whose steadiness used to be taken for granted, a nation that prided itself on its placidity and caution, Canada had in recent years become a cockpit of frustrations. Its national unity was threatened by the pull of regional economic self-interest, its politics had become fragmented and quarrelsome, its economy was in need of a lift, its painstakingly put-together French-English partnership-the cornerstone of the confederation that will be a century...
Aboard were two Cuban diplomatic couriers on their roundabout way to La Paz via Mexico and Chile. Investigators found a batch of Cuban documents and an auto matic pistol with silencer. Another interesting discovery: both Cubans appeared to have been in the cockpit of the plane, which was 35 miles off course and 9,000 ft. too low when it crashed...