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With American Airlines, which originally he pulled together from a disjointed, money-losing airline into the biggest, and one of the most profitable, he intends to make more history. C.R. and Damon work together as smoothly as the motors on one of their DC-3s. C.R. handles the finances. Damon the flying. But they do not think that the 9,457 miles of routes American now flies, besides ten transatlantic trips daily for A.T.C., are enough to keep them busy. So they have applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board to nearly double this mileage...
...Aeronautics Board to extend its present route, from Seattle to Milwaukee, all the way to New York, via Detroit. But Northwest's tough, ambitious president, Croil Hunter, 51, will not be able to bite his plum till he can get some six or seven more planes-probably DC-3s at first-to fly the new route. As other transcontinental routes are overloaded, Hunter hopes that this will not take long...
Nevertheless the Navy sailed them, along with the converted oilers of the Sangamon class and the C-3s of the Bogue class. They swelled the baby flat-top fleet and they were probably as good as anything which could be provided, with the time and tools available...
Behncke protests that cramming 1,000 Ib. of added payload into commercial planes, most of which are five or six years old, would be highly risky for pilots and passengers. CAB engineers have made exhaustive test flights in DC-3s loaded to the higher weight limits, and the Air Transport Command calmly loads its DC-35 up to 29,000 Ib. for military flights. But Dave Behncke is unconvinced. "What I'm thinking of," he argues, "is the cushion of safety which the pilot must have to land safely if something goes wrong while in flight, and that cushion...
...Lodestars have finally been returned to the airlines. But how many DC-3s can be pried loose from the Army in the near future is still an open question...