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Enter the White House. Instead of supporting the Air Force and Republican Tower, it comes down in favor of Democrat Addabbo. Why? To win the votes of Long Island Congressmen last August for Reagan's tax increase, the White House promised to buy 20 more A-10s. At this inefficient production rate, the price of the plane has jumped from $5.9 million apiece in 1975 to $18 million (more than...
Boeing is also beginning to profit from the industry's twin problems of overcapacity in big airliners (as many as 100 747s, DC-10s and L-1011s are grounded because they cannot be filled), and the fare wars sparked by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. While the trunks have been slugging it out in expensive discounting duels for a shrinking number of passengers on such popular routes as New York-Los Angeles and Miami-Chicago, small regional airlines, known in the industry as "bumblebees," have been making fat profits serving medium-size cities abandoned by the major carriers...
...shift to smaller airliners has also saved McDonnell Douglas' commercial-aircraft division, which is long on cost-efficient smaller planes but has not been able to sell one of its star-crossed DC-10s in two years. In November, the company announced a $1 billion contract to sell 30 new 142-passenger DC-9 "Super 80s" to Alitalia, Italy's national airline...
...critical comments on the A-10 Thunderbolt II [May 24] shocked me. The mission assigned this plane is one of the toughest and most dangerous in the history of air warfare. The A-10s will fly at treetop levels, where faster aircraft like the F-16 lack the turning ability to avoid hills, trees and other obstructions. At this low altitude, the A-10 must be able to withstand small arms and other antiaircraft fire while destroying targets quickly. Its survivability is second to none...
...chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee is Republican John Tower of Texas; the F-16 Fighting Falcon is made in Fort Worth by General Dynamics Corp. Tower's committee cut all funds for the rival A10. The Pentagon, which still insists it does not need more A-10s, last week readily accepted the Senate cut. But Addabbo predicts that some of the planes will be restored when the House and Senate work out a final version. Says he: "In conference, I expect a compromise will be made...