Word: seater
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Invented by an Amsterdam engineer named Luud Schimmelpennink -apparently no kin to the Dutch cigar manufacturer of that name-Witkar is a two-seater, drive-it-yourself electric vehicle. It purrs peacefully at up to 20 m.p.h. and 2.4 miles between strategically located stations where it can be recharged in five minutes. There will be 15 in July, and eventually Amsterdam's burghers plan to have a fleet of 1,500 of the buggies in the central city...
...Yeah, well I was waiting to go home and I had to take a shit and walked out to the shitter and a rocket hit the hootch I was staying in and killed four guys; imagine that man? I mean, it was a six seater, or something, and I laid down on the floor and then walked back and there were all these fuckers screaming and four of them dead and my suitcase, the one right back there, had holes in it and it still won't close right. Imagine that, man? I have a friend who's very religious...
Leisurely Speeds. Schweizer turns out over 100 sailplanes a year. About half are the two-seat model 2-33, used primarily by flying schools and clubs for training (cost: $7,750). Schweizer also produces the popular single seater in this country, the medium-performance 1-26 (about $6,000). Competition flying is still dominated by German fiber-glass models, such as the AS-W 17, Nimbus, Kestrel and Cirrus, featuring long, albatross-like wings for higher performance. They fetch between $11,000 and $20,000. A beginner usually spends $400-$500 on lessons, though membership in a club...
...biggest seller in the small-jet market is Cessna's Citation, a $725,000 twin fanjet eight-seater (including that of the pilot) with an average range of 1,230 miles; it was brought out early last year. In December Cessna delivered ten Citations, bringing last year's total sales to 52, and company officials expect to sell double that number of planes this year...
Gates Learjet's sales are rising too; last week the Wichita-based firm announced that it had sold 16 planes in the past month alone. A typical model, the six-seater 24D, which retails for $863,000, has a 1,884-mile range and cruises at 550 m.p.h. Lockheed's $2,000,000 JetStar stresses low operating costs, as does North American Rockwell's Sabre 75A ($1.8 million). Beechcraft does not produce its own jet, but markets the comfortable British Beechcraft Hawker BH-125 600, which sells for $592,000. As for Grumman, it sold 22 Gulfstreams...