One day last week President Eisenhower stepped into a small, twin-engined, blue-and-white airplane at National Airport and took off. Thirty-two minutes later, the trim little craft sat down on the 2,200-ft. grass runway at Gettysburg, Pa. After a pleasant tour of his farm, the President flew home in just 22 minutes.
This was not the first time that Dwight Eisenhower had flown in a small aircraft (he soloed in the Philippines in 1937), but it was the first time that the President of the U.S. had.* In the past the Secret Service has insisted that presidential planes have at least four engines....
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