Word: 6s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After four months on the ground, the first DC-6s will take to the air again this week. Douglas Aircraft Co. said it had caught the bugs that had caused two plane fires (and the death of 52) last fall and grounded the planes. American Airlines will resume its DC-6 transcontinental flights; United, National, Braniff, Panagra and Sabena will begin to put their planes in service soon afterwards...
...modifications in the planes cost Douglas more than $3,000,000. The airlines which had to do without their 96 DC-6s lost an estimated $12,000,000 by the grounding...
...Sixes Take Off. Douglas DC-6s, grounded by fires last November (TIME, Nov. 24), were test flown to see if the four major changes in the plane had eliminated the fire bugs. So far, the grounding has cost the three biggest domestic users of sixes (United, American and National airlines) an estimated $10,000,000. But the airlines still liked the plane. Of Douglas Aircraft Co.'s new orders for eleven DC-6s, six were from United, five from Delta...
Fire Bug. A joint Government-industry committee put its finger on the cause of fires aboard two Douglas DC-6 planes, which had led U.S. airlines and Douglas Aircraft Co. to ground all DC-6s in service. As expected (TIME, Nov. 24), CAB decided that the gasoline tank vent forward of an air scoop permitted gasoline to be sucked into the heating system, where it ignited. Douglas plans to move the vent and make some other minor design changes, paying for them itself. The airlines do not expect to get the 92 grounded planes back into service until next month...
Action. Eleven hours after the Gallup fire, American Airlines' Board Chairman Cyrus Rowlett Smith ordered American's 35 DC-6s grounded "until we know" the reason for the fires. Shortly after, United Air Lines' President W. A. Patterson grounded United's 34 DC-6s. President Truman's own Independence, a DC-6, came under the quarantine...