Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money stalled them until Williams, another Douglas alumnus and the owner of Hydroforming, an aircraft-parts-making company, bought a controlling interest in Hayden in 1958. Williams was sure that "an 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...
...budget is expected to be roughly $130 billion, with $70 billion to $75 billion of that for defense. Just where the money will go depends on such pending decisions as whether a Nike-X anti-missile missile system should be deployed, how much will be spent on a supersonic transport and how much Government paper can be sold to the public in 1967 - a factor that can vary the final size of the budget by $5 billion or more. And, of course, the President had not yet announced his decision about a tax hike, which could depend just as much...
...Coffee. The commuter lines can. The economical Beech planes that HUB will use need only 3.1 passengers to break even. The flight is generally more expensive than a similar flight on a jet, and there are no hostesses, coffee, tea or milk. What the commuter craft does is provide transport for businessmen anxious to negotiate deals...
Nineteen commercial airlines will probably offere fewer charter flights to HSA and other independent charterers, because they recently agreed at the International Air Air Transport conference in Rome to cut group fares on their own transatlantic flights. These rate slashes should enable airlines to use more of their planes on regularly-scheduled flights, without settling for the less profitable charters...