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...commercial aviation industry last week, the ceiling looked unlimited. Pan American World Airways announced a $110 million order with Douglas Aircraft for 40 of its speedy (365 m.p.h.) piston-engined DC-7s, the biggest order ever placed by an airline with a single manufacturer. Two days later, Northwest Airlines ordered another 14 Douglas planes costing $28 million. Together, the two boosted Douglas' backlog to 156 planes, worth more than $500 million, the highest figure in its history. At rival Lockheed, orders were on hand for $225 million worth of Constellations...
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...
...delivery of 25 new 1449-model Constellations fitted with four 5,500-h.p. Pratt & Whitney T34 turboprop engines. New plane is designed to carry up to 99 passengers, cruise nonstop across the U.S. at more than 425 m.p.h., about 60 m.p.h. faster than current piston-engined DC-7s...
...hard hit when its Comet I jetliner was grounded after a series of disasters (TIME, May 10), is due for another blow. The government-owned British Overseas Airways Corp., which had hoped to replace its American equipment with new British planes, is negotiating with Douglas Aircraft for ten DC-7s, to be powered by British turboprops, for its future fleets...
After American Airlines started its non-stop transcontinental service nine months ago, it went to the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to boost the maximum flight time for air crews from eight to ten hours. American's new Douglas DC-7s could easily make the eastbound flight within the time limit, but strong prevailing winds at high altitudes often held westbound flights in the air for nine hours or more. American had no trouble getting permission from the CAB, which already had a more liberal rule for transoceanic flights. But last week the biggest U.S. airline ran into plenty...