QUEEN OF THE AIR

摘要

There isn't a 10-most-beautiful-airplanes list published that doesn't include the Staggerwing, and every classic airplanes calendar devotes a photo to Beech's backward bird. Yet this milestone biplane began life as a sales failure, and was ugly as a pug to boot. How it found its way to aviation-icon status is a tale that defines the growth and rapidly increasing sophistication of private flying in the 1930s and mid-1940s.