Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right plane at the right price. Under President Olive Ann Beech, who took over when her husband died in 1950, and Vice President Jack Gaty, who runs the operating end, Beech's line starts with its famed single-engined Bonanza ($25,000), goes up to a far fancier Twin-Bonanza at $88,000, and ends with an eight-passenger peacetime version of its wartime D18, which costs $125,000. This year, like its competitors, Beech will try to fill in the chinks...
HELICOPTER TRAVEL is growing up. New York Airways, Inc. will put five Vertol 15-passenger, twin-rotor copters in service to ferry passengers between metropolitan area's three major airports...
...entertainment of union chiefs and their friends, the local kept a 40-ft. Chris-Craft cruiser, a mountain cabin, a twin-engined Beech airplane; two Local No. 3 officials admitted that they once used the plane to fly to five different cities to cash $2,000 expense checks so it would look as though the money was being spent for campaigning...
Prestige, Not Profit. The Soviets plug Aeroflot as "the only line in the world with mass and regular exploitation of jets." To fly into the jet age ahead of the West, Aeroflot adapted Designer Andrei Tupolev's twin-jet Badger medium-range bombers to regular commercial service. The TU-104 looks like a Victorian Pullman car with ornate chandeliers, overstuffed seats, brass serving trays and old-time chain-flush toilets. But overnight it has changed Aeroflot from a lowly regarded, primarily domestic line into a major international threat. Aeroflot has about 50 TU-104s, flies them regularly to East...
Aeroflot expects to convert completely to jets and turboprops by 1960, phase out the 800 to 1,000 two-engined Ilyushins (opposite number to the DC-3) that are its bread-and-lard planes. Thus, in less than three years, Aeroflot hopes to leap from the primitive, twin-engined piston stage into the four-jet age, without carefully rolling up experience on larger piston planes as Western lines have done...