Word: seaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than mere bigness. It was a shrewd move by both planemakers: their products would fit together like clasped hands. Among them were the shark-bodied Constellation; the fat-bellied Constitution; the six-engined XB-36, the "flying cigar"; the Shooting Star. There would be civilian models, from four-seater personal planes to 400-passenger transports; for the Army & Navy everything from "Flying Jeeps" to four-engined jet bombers...
...Curtsingers spent their wedding night jammed inside a five-seater plane chartered to fly them across the continent (the nuptial flight was not broadcast...
What Next? On the day Piper Cub airplanes went on display in Manhattan's John Wanamaker department store, four were sold to private flyers. The prices: from $995 for a single-seater to $2,905 for a three-place model. Ten hours of flying instructions were thrown...
...some 25 Ozark farmers had worked for ten days, neglecting the war, their homes and their hay-mowing, as they blasted through a 30-ft limestone wall. Drive's rescue made front pages across the land. Tearful Jake wrapped Drive in an old shirt, clambered into his two-seater buggy and went home, happy...
Slashing air combat over savagely defended aircraft plants deep in Germany made a spectacular formal debut last week for the newest and hottest U.S. Army fighter: the P-51B Mustang. Airmen wagged their heads and wondered whether, at long last, this was it-the single-seater that had everything...