Word: seaters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Horsy Movement. Author Purdy is not living on all cylinders himself, because he does not yet own a Lancia (only a handful of U.S. fanciers do), but by Kings of the Road standards he is not doing so badly: he owns and drives a 1927, two-seater Bugatti. He also owns an Isotta-Fraschini '28, a Peugot '14, and even a comparatively Johnny-come-lately Citroën 1939. He has also owned a Mercer Raceabout two-seater, vintage 1912, a real American beau ty. To drive a 1912 Mercer, says Purdy, is to feel "the movement...
Hall said he followed the Turnpike on his way to New York, when about 3:15 p.m. showers and fog began to make flying difficult. The two-seater Cessna plane was approaching the rise two miles before the Laurel Hill Tunnel (near Somerset), but the hill, surrounding mountains, and low clouds prevented Hall from climbing or turning around...
Youth for Christ International, which has sent earthbound missionaries to Europe and South America, last week appointed Paul Hartford, 37, its first official Flying Evangelist. Airman Hartford's first Y.C.I, mission will be to the Caribbean. His basic equipment: a two-seater Cessna, tracts and leaflets to be dropped from the air, a public-address system for use on the ground or even in low, circling flight, and a Spanish-speaking interpreter...
...coastline against enemy bomber attack. One of the first newsmen granted Air Force permission to fly in the F-94, he found himself pretzeled between canopy and parachute while rocketing around the cold night sky at 600 m.p.h. He once had the same trouble when he rode the two-seater version of the F80 Shooting Star, but found the B45 four-jet light bomber more comfortable...
Dream Car. Buick's experimental "dream car," the two-seater convertible XP-300, was unveiled at Chicago's auto show last week. Designed by General Motors' Chief Engineer Charles A. Chayne, the car has an aluminum body only 39 inches high at the cowl (53.4 in. with the top up), blue leather seats, safety belts, padded crash board, hydraulic engine hood and jacks. The engine is a supercharged 300-h.p. V-8 which weighs only 500 lbs. (250 lbs. less than Buick's current 152-h.p. engine), and runs at high speeds on a mixture...