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Plane Mate lifts passengers to aircraft at airports
A 27 ton Budd Company vehicle named Plane-Mate serves as a passenger lounge on wheels. It carries up to 150 travelers from terminals to remotely parked planes, elevates to gate height for boarding, and then to plane height for loading. Tested at Kennedy and ordered by American Pan American and Braniff.
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Irport
Budd Company
Kennedy International Airport
New York
American
Pan American
Braniff