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By Dennis Hevesi / The Bulletin
December 4, 2011
“No, no, you can’t go up!” Betty Haas’ father insisted that day in 1940 when the family went to an air show in Bennington, Vt. But when her parents left, Haas, then 19, sneaked back to the airfield, paid a dollar and, as she liked to say, “squished into a seat” for a ride on a tiny plane.
It was....
