European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 03, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Aircraft companies can Tinoteo High priced Light planes Only sell to wealthy Farmers businessmen 1 Fulvina automobile first in history May open Way for new Era in private trans port. It converts in no minutes. Has 150 horsepower and a six Cylinder engine. Jfe it ii a i5� i a. Air Hibian has maximum Road Speed of forty five Miles an hour due to its Light body weight. Its spread Eagle wheels require plenty of Road space seaplane was Baum Hood As solution for weekend trips to is each resorts 9 must for the sports minded. Prices for Light planes Range from �1990. -. J with the notable exception of Culver offspring of the old names of american private flying Are still extant Aeron a of Middle town Ohio Beech aircraft of Wichita Kansas Bellanca aircraft of new Castle Delaware Cessna aircraft of Wichita Ryan aeronautical of san Diego Taylor Craft of Alliance. Ohio Stinson and Piper. Their planes Range in Price from pipers �1990 to Cessna s �13,750. These Mayflower descendants of the Industry Are still not sure of the Post War upstarts. Some of the newcomers have made outrageous advances Luscombe air plane corporation of Dallas whose modern Silva re line runs from $2495 to 86995 and engineering research corporation of Hyattsville Maryland whose �3590 Erc Oupe enjoyed whirlwind sales in the first months of 1946. It has suffered severe cutbacks lately. Other Johnny come lallies have shown evidence of their unsteadiness. The Globe Swift was designed like the Silva re and Erc Oupe and a dozen others to meet the postwar demand. It is an All Metal Low Wing monoplane with a modernistic Interior. In air perform Ance it has a cruising Speed of 140mph, service ceiling of sixteen thou. Sand feet and can Fly 512 Miles on a Twenty eight gallon tank Load of Gaso line. One of its special features unique. In Light plane circles is the sky Power. Propeller. Blade pitch can be changed hydraulically by instrument panel control which shortens the length of the take off run by nearly 20 per cent and increases the initial rate of climb by almost 30 per cent. Globe Swift however ran. Into family trouble and was adopted by the Texas engineering & manufacturing company Temco of Dallas. Aviation pundits had pointed to the so it in 1245. As a replacement for the heavy Auto Mobile. Today Temco lists the Swift at just under s3"500. Still other newcomers continue to flout the old families. All american air Craft of Long Beach. California whose Ensign Sells for �3495 Call aircraft of Afton Wyoming whose Callair a-3 Sells for �4525 Funk aircraft of gof Fayville Kansas whose custom sire Sells for �3495 and Mon Coupe aircraft. & engine corporation of Melbourne. Florida whose Mon Coupe Sells for �3890. Of course none of these upstarts showed a profit but then neither did most of the Blue bloods. Still newer planes Noj in production Jet Are the Streak of the Aero flight aircraft company of Long Beach the brigadier of the Baumann aircraft of Burbank California and the secret sounding Ga-2 and Mac 125-c the first by the Goodyear aircraft of Akron and the other by Meyers aircraft of Tecumseh Michigan. The most widely sold plane in 1941 was a Blue stocking flying machine the Stinson voyager. The Only profit maker in the business its sales of 2662 constituted almost half the single engine personal aircraft delivered last year. The voyager is a neat but completely conventional air plane of prewar design. Its Wing is High Over the cockpit As in. The spirit of St. Louis in the Low Wing construction of the Post War planes. It seats four comfortably but the quartet can carry practically no Luggage. It is one of the most stable personal planes on the Market and on of the easiest to Fly. Two characteristics that go far in explaining its solitary Success. It Sells for �6249. But even the voyager undershoot the goal set by plane makers after. A a Day. The facts All Metal construction notwithstanding the new planes Are fundamentally the same As the old ones. Somewhat faster they Are on the whole less stable and much harder to Over prewar design in postwar air planes has been sharpened by economics in postwar United states there is Little doubt that the High Price of Beans has had a pro found the flying time of americans after the air minded Man finished paying $2000 for the car he expected to buy for �1300 and had stored his Dollar beef and Dollar butter in his safety vault his resources for aeronautic adventure were largely dissipated. Looking Forward to More Normal times . Wright administrator of civil aeronautics has Laid Down an immediate plan for reviving the spirit of the modern Pilot the Industry must make a useful plane with characteristic already available to designers. This plane can be. Sold to 150,000 americans a year by 1955, he says. It should Beabout two Hundred horsepower have dual control a non vicious spin and a tricycle Landing gear with casters for Cros wind landings. It should seat four Long distances without re fueling and be Able to land in Small Fields. This not so futuristic plane will. Have to sell for less than �4900. The closest thing to this plane today is the nation. It has 150 horsepower will carry a Pilot plus 650 pounds cargo human or otherwise for five Hundred Miles without stopping take off in 560 feet land in 335 the ads say and has a Steerable tricycle Landing gear. The catch. It costs �8750 without instr year most of the country s 445, 000 certified pilots declined to pick up this kind of Bill. Only 28 per cent of All private flying was personal or Busi Ness flying 61 per cent was for instruction. Most of the latter was done at the expense of the government through the g i. Bill. As government Aid is with drawn Arr budget cutting congressmen have singled out air training for vet Erans the use of private planes shrinks. As a result private flying in America has become More private than Ever. Purchasers of personal planes today Are wealthy Farmers in the Middle and far West ranchers Oil Field operators and upper bracket businessmen who can write Oft the High Cost of flying As business expense. Plane manufacturers in moving into the vice presidential in come Range either have Given up. Their one time concern or. And mrs. Average american or at least put them off into the vague future. We be forgotten the Joy rider and the lieutenant who came out of the army with fifteen Hundred Bucks and a yen for an ," a spokesman for the Industry admitted not Long ago. We re concentrating on them an who 0 can use a plane in his daily business painful exercise with a Federal Docu ment known As the consumer expenditure study give s an explanation Why manufacturers of by picks and Fords have not at this announcement by the plane makers trudged Lemming like into the Detroit River. A plane and car together a necessary combination for the current flyer Cost about �2500 a year to main Tain the Ces says that an annual travel Bill of those dimensions is paid Only by families making Twenty thousand dollars a year or More. Even if one believed the full Page ads he could hardly envisage a mass Market for the current flying Prospect for 1948 is Darker than i the picture of 1947. In contrast to last year s fifteen thousand planes the experts agree that sales this year will be around twelve thousand. Of _ these they say eight thousand will be h four place planes. With the modern four place plane costing eight thousand dollars or More the ground bound citizen can still look Forward to seeing the Sun on Good flying Days. Yet a few Hardy souls insist that popular flying is just beyond the horizon. As viewed from the crows nest of the civil aeronautics administration the new Era includes Airl Anuswith automobile Type controls that both Fly in the air and flit on the Highway. Drive or Fly these hybrids off an As Sembly line at the rate of ten thousand a year and you la have a family plane for fourteen Huri dred dollars it says. Such a Craft will do for the air plane what the Model t did for the automobile the report warns. The plane makers looking skyward brighten. They will produce an Aerial. Olivver someday maybe next year. Undaunted by the Prospect of the sunday Pilot gouging his Niche in the native culture they eagerly await the return of two bit Hamburg and Loose Money hoping perhaps to catch the great american Public when the Highway become overcrowded weekend april 3, 19 6
