Word: 6s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things done, to his mind, is to have one airline make an improvement; competition will force the rest to follow. He was the first to start installation of I.L.S. equipment on his planes. (The new DC-6s are I.L.S.-equipped.) Other major U.S. lines have already followed. They will not be able to use it for months, till I.L.S. ground equipment is installed in enough airports. But when it is, the lines will be ready to use it. If everyone sweats enough, and the new planes and safety devices work as well as expected, Pat Patterson expects that air travel...
...GOVERNMENT TREND TOWARD SCRAPPING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF AIRCRAFT THAT CANNOT BE SOLD AT PRESENT ESTABLISHED PRICES IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG AND MUST BE STOPPED : c-45s, c-46s, c-47s, c-60s, c-78s, BT-13s, BEECHCRAFT, AT-6s AND ALL TRAINERS...
...Civil Aeronautics Board examiners recommended that United Air Lines, second biggest U.S. domestic line, be given a route from the co-terminals of San Francisco and Los Angeles to Hawaii. When & if CAB finally grants the route, United will fly two round trips a day with 50-passenger DC-6s...
...planes will be of two types: 44-passenger DC-45, with a top speed of 280 m.p.h., and so-passenger DC-6s, with a top speed of 335 m.p.h. American Airlines will get 55 planes, Panagra three and United 35. Within a week, United plans to contract for another 15 from Douglas. Similarly, Eastern Airlines is now mulling over an order for Douglas. The airlines know that the new planes will make hash of present schedules. The transcontinental time will go down from 18 hours to 8 hours 30 minutes...
...famed Army pilot told his superiors after a fighting tour that "if you have got a hundred AT-6s [advanced trainers] you are a hell of a lot better off than if you have only twelve P-38s [Lightnings]. . . . We found that when we got into the low numbers we took a beating." Many another fighter pilot reported that when his flight had as much as a two-plane superiority. over the enemy his advantage was disproportionately...