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...just before any primary includes a couple of events in each of five cities. Mondale may hold one season record: the day before Super Tuesday, he hit eight Southern cities in 18 hours. During one 24-hour period before the Pennsylvania primary, Jackson flew aboard a twelve-seat turboprop plane from Pittsburgh to Madison, Wis., to Milwaukee to New Orleans. Along the way he delivered five speeches and slept about five hours. Two weeks ago, Jackson made a campaign appearance that ended at 10:30 p.m. in Albany. He then traveled to Harrisburg, Pa., and went to an antinuclear rally...
Your story on the Lear Fan turboprop plane, "Saga in Epoxy" [Nov. 15], was well researched and accurate. However, Bob Burch's expectation that the Lear Fan will be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration in the "summer of 1983" is based on unfounded optimism and lack of experience. If Burch's group is willing to put in an extra $200 million on top of the $90 million it has already invested, it might obtain certification...
...American members of the tour group aboard Flight 2505 were waiting as patiently as they could for the droning flight to end. Their airliner, carrying 72 passengers in all, was a Soviet-made turboprop Ilyushin-18, vintage 1960, a far cry in comfort and speed from the kind of aircraft the Americans were used to. The plane was approaching Shanghai last week when a flight that had been dull suddenly became unforgettable...
...daybreak in Ushuaia I was put on a 44-seat air force Fokker turboprop for a mail flight to the coastal bases of Rio Grande and Rio Gallegos. It was the first leg of a three-flight, twelve-hour journey in custody. It was also an edgy and unpleasant experience. My bags were "searched" twice, that being the kindest term for the hostile way in which personal contents can be scornfully tossed, spilled and made to seem like bits of compromising evidence all their own. Why was a "distinguished" American journalist carrying a duffel bag? Why were his shirts rumpled...
...York City that was later sold for $2 million. With his partners, he maintained a fleet of three dozen or more boats-no one kept count-and a cash reserve so large they could shrug off million-dollar business losses. Eventually they had to buy their own turboprop airplane to ferry overflowing cash profits to uninquisitive banks in the Bahamas and Cayman Islands...