CARL W. HIRSCHMANN

CARL W. HIRSCHMANN, 74, the Swiss entrepreneur and founder of Jet Aviation, died April 28 at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn., after a short illness. Hirschmann got his start in the machine tool business, but he learned to fly in 1940. In 1967 he founded Jet Aviation, which has grown in a...

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