Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad flying field alongside the Niagara Falls plant of Bell Aircraft Corp., a queer-looking new thing appeared last week. It was Bell's first postwar helicopter, designed for commercial flying. While President Lawrence D. Bell proudly watched, the helicopter rose straight up, swished around the field with a hollow, rattling roar, came down to an eggshell landing...
...Twosome. In the race to reconvert, short, balding Nash Russ, president of Taylorcraft Aviation Corp., had delivered his first civilian plane just two weeks after V-J day. Taylorcraft's Alliance, Ohio plant is now turning out 15 a day of its single model, the Twosome ($2,295), hopes to boost production to 50 a day by year's end. By then, Mr. Russ also hopes to be in production of a new model, a four-place, 127-m.p.h. plane. Price...
...Famed Piper Aircraft Corp. was neck & neck with Taylorcraft. Shrewd, quick-moving President William Thomas Piper, whose planes hedge-hopped up & down the front lines during the war, is making 300 planes a month in his Lock Haven, Pa. plant, hopes to edge his output up to 600 planes a month by January. While most of his competitors concentrated on one plane, he had shrewdly put two models into production, the Piper Cub Special ($2,010) and the three-place Piper Cub Super Cruiser...
...Champion. In its Middletown, Ohio plant, Aeronca Aircraft Corp. has already reached its prewar production rate of a two-place, high-winged monoplane, the Champion. Price: $2,095. Aeronca expects to roll out 550 planes by the end of this year, hopes to have production up to 500 ships a month by next April...
...Swift. The Swift, one of the first all-metal light planes to be made on an assembly line, rolled out of the Globe Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Fort Worth fort night ago. A sleek, shiny, two-place monoplane, the Swift is a cut above most small planes in speed (140 m.p.h.), as well as price ($3,495 up to $3,995). But Globe is not worried about its high-priced product. It announced that it already has a backlog of $11,000,000 in firm orders. Estimated production next year: 4,000 planes...