Word: 6s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both had started near the gasoline-burning heater under the cabin floor. The other plane, a United ship, with 52 aboard, had crashed (TIME, Nov. 3), with no survivors. But the Civil Aeronautics Board had seen enough to order the magnesium emergency landing flares taken out of all DC-6s-a step the lines themselves had long advocated. In the second fire, the airliner may have been saved by the fact that it had no flares to add to the fire...
Black on Red. American Airlines Inc. made a net profit of $1,272,514 in the third quarter of this year, thanks largely to its new fleet of DC-6s. But the improvement in earnings was not enough to offset the first quarter's loss: operations for the first nine months still showed a net loss of more than...
...gamble on a new plane? In the same way, he got together with American Airlines' C. R. Smith early in the war and got Douglas up to building the DC-6, to compete with Lockheed's new Constellation. By next fall, United hopes to have 35 DC-6s operating...
American plans to put two DC-6s in operation on April 27 also, has ordered 50. In all, six U.S. airlines have ordered DC-6s and another 41 planes have been ordered by foreign lines...
Patterson figures he will carry 2,325,000 passengers this year, more in the future. He has already ordered the planes to do the job: 35 DC-6s, seven Boeing Strato-cruisers, 50 Martin two-motored 3035. Unlike some other lines, United did not over-order, has not canceled an order for a single plane. Nor has it had to scratch for cash to pay for them. Recently it raised $49,000,000, got even conservative Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which had never invested in an airline before...