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...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...
...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...
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...
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...