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