Word: tried
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father was hired by Ford's chief engineer and given a free hand to design the Ford Tri-Motor. It is to Torn Towle, a relatively unknown aviation pioneer, that credit should go for designing the Tin Goose, with its legendary lifting power, durability and structural integrity. He is the real grandfather of the Bushmaster 2000, son of Tin Goose...
...Posvar's Air Force specialties was the methodology of decision making, a facility that will be sharply tested at Pitt. The school's financial troubles were blamed largely on poor budget control, an overemphasis on costly graduate studies, and the failure of a tri mester system to attract summer students. Turning to Pennsylvania taxpayers for help, Pitt gained a $5,000,000 emergency appropriation in 1965, then became a "state-related" school last fall. As a result of this change in status, state support was hiked from $6,000,000 to $20 million; but Pitt also...
...Bushmaster got its start in 1954, when the Tri-Motor's original designer, William B. Stout, got the aircraft's design rights back from Ford, formed the Hayden Aircraft Corp., in Bellflower, Calif., with a group of Douglas engineers. Lack of 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...
...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...
...bring it up to date, the Bushmaster will sport more powerful engines, enlarged cockpit windows, a lighter and stronger aluminum-alloy skin, a foot-operated hydraulic replacement of the old Tri-Motor's hand-operated "Johnny Brake," a larger stabilizer and a dorsal fin to reduce yaw, modern trim tabs, and interior rather than exterior control cables...