The roadable airplane: a safe airplane as easy to operate and as cheap to buy as the average autoniobile. This was the American dream in the air-minded 1930s. I lived through that period and well recall one of the most successful attempts to fulfill that dream. It all began when Joseph Man Gwinn Jr., a World War I aviator and engineer at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, chose to remain in Buffalo, N.Y., after the company moved to San Diego, Calif. He had designed what he deemed was a safe, roadable airplane after two years of dedicated research and development, and in 1935 he organized the Gwinn Aircar Company Inc. in Buffalo, serving as the new firm's president and chief engineer.
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机译：公路飞机：安全的飞机，操作简单，价格便宜，与普通自动飞机一样。这是1930年代空想的美国梦。我经历了那个时期，并且回想起实现那个梦想的最成功的尝试之一。这一切始于第一次世界大战的飞行员兼联合飞机公司的工程师约瑟夫·曼·格温·J。约瑟夫·曼·格温（Joseph Man Gwinn Jr.）在公司搬到加利福尼亚州的圣地亚哥后选择留在纽约州布法罗市。在经过两年的专门研究和开发之后，这款便携式飞机才得以发展。1935年，他在布法罗组建了Gwinn Aircar Company Inc.，担任新公司的总裁兼总工程师。
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