Word: seaters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl luminosity; it was almost as if they had already seen so much they had turned to marble. Her face had that blowsy, drowsy look, the kind people get when they have slept too long, or not at all. These nights, sleep is scarce. Plopping down on a two-seater sofa in her workroom, Joyce explained: "This is really a Hide-A-Bed. I have to get up at 5:30 to do my column; so I sleep out here instead of bothering my husband. The messenger from the Times comes...
...entry in the medium-priced market. The basic beetle, which still accounts for nearly two of every three VW sales, is about to get some sportier company. In February, VW entered a joint development venture with Porsche; soon they will be producing a fast, mid-engine two-seater, the Volksporsche...
Typical of the Class of 1918 was Eliot Adams Chapin, who on June 27 flew his De Haviland two-seater on a bombing run against a railroad at Thionville, north of Metz. A swarm of German Fokker Scouts atacked the formation, raking Chapin's gas tank with bullets. Witnesses saw Chapin calmly shake hands with his navigator as the De Haviland burst into flames at 1,300 feet...
Necessary Frenzy. The Islander is only the second plane designed by Norman and Partner John Britten, both 39 years old. Giving up temporarily after their one previous effort, a 1949 single-seater that flew "like a crippled bird," the two partners began to concentrate on building up what became a worldwide crop-spraying business. They were waiting, says Norman, "until we could see a really good gap in the market before working ourselves up into the necessary frenzy to build another plane...
...newcomers began concentrating on the Mark 20, a prototype four-seater that Mooney (who soon left to join Lockheed Aircraft) had recently designed. The plane was noisy, but its wooden-wing construction enabled Rachal to price it low; by 1959, the company was turning out 180 of the 150-m.p.h. craft a year. The following year, Rachal switched to an all-metal plane, the single-engine Mark 21. The rakishly styled plane grew more popular with the addition in 1964 of a gyro-driven control system that automatically keeps the plane on course without constant pilot corrections...