Word: 6s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CIVILIAN-AIRPLANE ORDERS, usually obscured by the aircraft industry's defense orders, are breaking all records. One measure of the volume of business from commercial aviation: Douglas Aircraft Co. is selling DC-6s and DC-7s at the rate of $90 million monthly, highest in its history. A customer placing his order now for a DC-7 would not get delivery before June...
Your article on Henry B. Nevins was extremely good. It is unfortunate, however, that neither was the Baruna mentioned nor her picture printed ... In the 6-meter class you did not mention . . . Llanoria, which is the newest and best of the 6s he built. She was twice Olympic champion and winner of the One-Ton and Seawanhaka Cups...
...tidy hangar just northwest of Palm Beach's International Airport hangs a neatly lettered sign: PRIVATE KEEP OUT. The rest of the sign, if the busy men inside bothered to spell it out, could read: SPORTSMEN AT WORK. Inside, periodically deafened by the takeoff thunder of DC-6s and Globemasters, crews of men in blue coveralls worked lovingly this week over three low-silhouette (40 inches) automobiles with an arresting look of sleek power...
PHILIPPINE Air Lines, which now flies to the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, will probably drop its international routes and sell its fleet of 4 DC-6s and DC-6Bs. The government-subsidized air line needs $5,000,000 immediately to buy four Douglas DC-7s to compete with other carriers, another $15 million over the next ten years for jet liners. President Magsaysay would rather forgo the prestige of an international line, spend the money on rural projects and on improving domestic air service...
Actually, air-coach travel is fast becoming second-class service in name only. Instead of awkward night flights, air coaches now operate on daytime schedules, and tourists usually ride in the same equipment used on first-class runs. On air coach DC-6s and Constellations, the only major difference is that an extra row of seats is added so that passengers on the right side ride three abreast. The only important luxuries of first-class travel not available on air coaches are free meals. Domestic coach passengers must buy their food, but meals are now free on overseas air-coach...