Word: taylorcrafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denver to see his brother. Martin Mitzkus, his boss on the ranch at Forsyth, Mont., had offered to fly him there. They had stopped overnight at Casper, Wyo., had started out again in the morning. Ranch-hand Alvey, a rugged man of 37, remembered how the red. single-engined Taylorcraft had headed in between two peaks of the Medicine Bow Range. Then a downdraft had seized it, and the plane crashed...
...Troubles. Taylorcraft Aviation Corp., one of the largest companies in the field, filed a petition in Cleveland's Federal Court asking permission to reorganize under the bankruptcy laws. It had overreached itself by optimistically redeeming $320,000 worth of preferred stock and spending $600,000 for plant expansion. Then, when it could not get enough engines to meet its production goal of 40 planes a day, Taylorcraft found itself with a whopping inventory ($800,000 in excess of its needs), and no way of meeting its current debts of $1,030,000. But it still had a backlog...
...your plane Saturday and fly to your Maryland farm on Sunday. . . . Fly to Wilkes-Barre . . . Monday. Flying is easier than driving a car. ... It costs less to run a Taylorcraft than to operate an automobile. . . . CAA records prove the safety ... 8 free hours flying instruction (enough to teach you to fly)." To airmen, who blow a gasket over such talk, this seemed the silliest ad of the month. It was not much worse than avia tion ads which have rosily pictured families flying off for weekends. But aviation buffs have learned to take such things well salted. Now, the booming...
...disconcerting." Cheap to Operate? The Civil Aero nautics Administration joined in the de bunking. In its latest survey on civil aviation it said: more than half of the plane owners who gave up their planes did so because of the high operating costs. A light plane such as the Taylorcraft would probably cost from $920 to $1,610 a year...
...Famed Piper Aircraft Corp. was neck & neck with Taylorcraft. Shrewd, quick-moving President William Thomas Piper, whose planes hedge-hopped up & down the front lines during the war, is making 300 planes a month in his Lock Haven, Pa. plant, hopes to edge his output up to 600 planes a month by January. While most of his competitors concentrated on one plane, he had shrewdly put two models into production, the Piper Cub Special ($2,010) and the three-place Piper Cub Super Cruiser...