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...above the North Atlantic, so lonely half a century ago that Charles Lindbergh said he communed with ghosts and guardian spirits, is dense now with 747s, the flying auditoriums that are just beginning their summer trade. Passengers doze over their drinks, eat flash-frozen steaks, watch movies through a passage as passive as Muzak. The New York-to-Paris odyssey that took Lindbergh 33½ hours would be a 3½-hour streak for the Concorde...
This effort involved many of our correspondents around the world. Madrid Bureau Chief Karsten Prager flew to Tenerife early in the week to begin assembling our detailed account of the tragic crash of the 747s. While he was interviewing the officials involved and the survivors, TIME staffers in London. Amsterdam and our U.S. bureaus talked with pilots, aviation officials and other experts about the entire state of air safety in general...
...Greenville, Texas, E-Systems has converted three Boeing 747s into "advanced airborne command posts." Crammed with electronic equipment and trailing antennas five miles long, the aircraft can be used to direct the movements of ships, planes and troops should ground communications fail in a war. The Secretary of Defense would probably be aboard one, and the President might...
...last year. Jumbo jets, the big-ticket items, led the dive. McDonnell Douglas (revenues through September 1975: $2.6 billion) sold 14 of its DC-10s in 1974, but got orders for only eleven in the first nine months of 1975. Boeing ($2.7 billion through September) watched its sales of 747s drop from 29 in 1974 to 20 last year. And Lockheed ($2.5 billion through September), which won 28 orders for the TriStar in 1974, did not get even one last year. (Military business, which accounts for more than half of each company's revenues, and deliveries of jetliners under...
...built World into the largest of the nation's supplemental airlines. Originally, he prospered largely by battling for and winning Military Airlift Command (MAC) contracts; lately, he has successfully expanded his civilian tourist business. Last year World's fleet of 14 jets, including three 747s, flew charters (85% commercial, 15% military) to more than 30 countries...