Word: 747s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seat-of-the-pants pioneer still running a major U.S. airline feels that he has many things to accomplish before he and Audrey can ride off into the sunset. For one thing, Six wants to be on hand for the day when Continental takes delivery of the three huge 747s that it has on order. "I'm the guy who took a look at the DC-3 and thought it was too big to fly. So I want to see these big ones come...
...inefficiency and inordinately high profits. The expense of developing the TSR 2 bomber, for example, became so outlandish that the government instead decided to buy 50 American F-llls. Commercial lines have suffered too; BOAC, after innumerable problems with British-made equipment, put $154 million down on six Boeing 747s...
...BOAC-owned 707 on Mount Fuji last March; moreover, that disaster led to the discovery of hairline tail fissures that briefly grounded a number of the company's 21 other 707s. The fact that BOAC has placed new orders for four Boeing 707 freighters and six Boeing 747s-and no additional null - is too much for many an M.P. The airline, charges Tory Stephen Hastings, has become a "Boeing shop window...
...have expansive notions about how to compart them. Pan American is pondering whether to put a piano bar aboard. TWA is contemplating a cocktail lounge and a nursery for children. To make room for such amenities, the airlines will sacrifice payload. Though designed with a 490-seat capacity, the 747s due for delivery starting in 1969 will actually carry from 340 to 390 passengers...
BOAC wanted to commit $154 million toward the purchase of six Boeing 747s, the jumbo jet (up to 490 passengers) that will go into service in late 1969. The government gave BOAC a go-ahead. Already under fire because its British-made equipment has developed maintenance bugs, BEA asked that it be allowed to buy $224 million worth of Boeing 727s and 737s, both relatively short-range but highly economical jets. BEA got turned down cold...