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...customer can choose any size of terminal. They range from one having just the bare essentials (lights, fuel supply, hangar and powerhouse) to the de luxe package for heavy international freight and passenger traffic, complete even to guest houses...
Smart, suave Juan Terry Trippe last week stirred the aviation industry with exciting news. Out of the hangar he wheeled Pan American Airways' grandiose postwar plans. Come war's end-and Civil Aeronautics Board approval-Pan Am plans to spend some $52,000,000 to expand its Latin American routes. And Juan Trippe stirred the earth-bound citizenry with news: Pan Am expects to slash flying time from the U.S. to Latin America by approximately two-thirds and will cut fares even below the present steamship rates. Examples: the fare from Manhattan to Rio de Janeiro will...
...Hangar-on. In Phoenix, Ariz., 58-year-old Amateur Pilot James Taylor undershot the airport, but wiggled to a successful landing on the hangar roof...
Passengers were devil-may-care businessmen or vacationers. Baker kept his line going by doing everything himself. When a passenger arrived at the field George stopped sweeping up the hangar and tinkered with the motor a bit, opened the office, sold the ticket, carried the baggage to the plane, and finally hedgehopped his passenger to the other end of the line. Once a plane landed on the back of a cow lying on the poorly-lighted Daytona Beach runway. But George's luck held: the cow was killed, but the passengers unscathed...
...hangar queen had been made. As parts shipments were delayed, and other planes rolled in, more of 144's equipment was taken. At length 144 lurked in her hangar, bare as a stripteaser. She had been stripped of 400 parts, including an oil system assembly, all four generators, even her propellers...