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...updated version of the Tri-Motor was just the plane to fill the gaps" left in workaday air transport by the emphasis on faster jet aircraft. Williams ultimately absorbed the project into his own company and hatched the first Bushmaster 2000 in 1966. In November, the son of the Tin Goose made its first flight...
Back in the days of flivvers and flappers, the Ford Tri-Motor transport was the workhorse of U.S. aviation. The "Tin Goose" was shaped like a slightly rhomboid crackerbox, sheathed in corrugated aluminum and equipped with engines slung under each wing and planted on its nose. It flew for every budding U.S. airline, for the Army, the Navy, the Marines. It hauled passengers and freight, landed on wheels, pontoons and skis. Nearly 200 Ford Tri-Motors were built between 1925 and 1932. Astonishingly, some 28 of these chicle, cattle, piping-and people-ferrying air craft are still flying between remote...
Filling the Gaps. Last week a live ringer for the Tin Goose, Aircraft Hydroforming's newly refined Bushmaster 2000, trundled down a Long Beach, Calif., runway and took off over the Pacific on a test flight. The Bushmaster has the 77-ft. 10-in. wingspan, all the lifting power and durability of its venerable predecessor, and the basic structure of the aircraft remains virtually unchanged. "After all," says Hydroforming's president, Ralph P. Williams, "not one Tri-Motor in all these years has ever had a structural failure...
Cerf endured that job for three years, while all around him New York was bursting with bright, talented people; his friends and former classmates were men such as Composers Howard Dietz, Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers. The theater and Tin Pan Alley were his passions. Says Donald Klopfer, 64, Cerfs Columbia classmate and now vice chairman of the Random House board of directors...
German culture, too, is vital, promising and socially oriented. While taking delight in piercing the pretensions of German materialism, Günter Grass (The Tin Drum), Heinrich Böll (The Clown) and Uwe Johnson (Speculations About Jakob) have dealt perhaps more effectively than any other writers with the peculiar poignancy of the human condition in the postwar world. Karlheinz Stockhausen and Hans Werner Henze have emerged as composers of worldwide status, and a younger group of West Berliners is experimenting with "post-pop realism." Just about every West German town of any size has opera and repertory theater. And for those...