Word: stearman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tough-minded Walter Hershel Beech, 48, looks like an oversized Bing Crosby. He never got through the seventh grade but has an amazing knack for machinery and aerodynamics. After five years in the Army Air Corps (1917-21), he joined Lloyd Stearman and Clyde Cessna (both of whom later formed their own companies), started Wichita's Travel Air Co. to make small planes. Travel Air boomed with the air craze of the Twenties...
...assembly line of the Stearman aircraft factory at Wichita are now coming planes built only for the purpose of being destroyed. Radio-controlled, they are flown without pilots, to give antiaircraft gunners maneuverable targets...
Flying over a new airdrome near Alabama's famed Tuskegee Institute this week, U.S. Army Air Forces pilots looked down on something new in the world. The air field, still abuilding, looked like many another new Army training center. Four Stearman trainers buzzed on and off in an interminable series of landings and takeoffs, and cadets waited on the flying line for their turns...