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Last week Los Angeles Airways, Inc., which has been flying seven-passenger piston-engine Sikorsky S-55 helicopters, put into service two new gas turbine Sikorsky S-61Ls, which can carry 28 passengers at 135 m.p.h. (v. 77 m.p.h.). The faster turn-around and the increased seating capacity of the S-61s (there will be four in operation by this summer) will enable the line to carry 150,000 to 200,000 passengers a year at 10? per seat mile, as against the old S-55s 40,000 passengers and 17.9? per seat mile. It takes three hours of freeway...
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