Word: 8s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SWAP is being negotiated by Pan American and National airlines. Pan Am plans to lease at least one of its Boeing 707s to National every winter, when National's Miami business picks up. National would lease DC-8s to Pan Am in summer for busy North Atlantic route. Deal would allow National to make three jet round trips daily to Miami during coming Florida season, race ahead of competing Eastern and Northeast with first pure jets on route...
...back 14 propeller-driven Stratocruisers when it delivers its 707s to British Overseas Airways Corp., has offered to give trade-in allowances on nine more 707s to Northwest Airlines. Douglas is negotiating with United Air Lines to take in some DC-7s as a down payment on 30 DC-8s; Lockheed is dickering in the same way to sell its turboprop Electras. All told, U.S. airlines have ordered 257 jets and 172 turboprops. When these come into service, their extra speed and capacity will send about 700 piston aircraft onto the used-plane market...
Into Wooster, the county seat, drove bearded Amishmen who hitched their buggies near chrome-splashed V-8s, walked heavily beside their black-bonneted wives into the courthouse, where three Amish couples were on trial for contempt. Their offense: after refusing to let their children start the ninth grade, they carted the three teen-agers to an Amish settlement in Pennsylvania, defying a court order that they be placed in a children's home and allowed to go to school...
...first: American Airlines), took another step into the jet age. Last week it ordered ten Douglas DC-8 long-range and eleven new-type, Boeing 720 medium-range jet aircraft to be delivered in 1960. Total cost: $100 million, to be added to the $175 million worth of DC-8s ordered for delivery in 1959. To finance the new jet order, United got an additional $100 million in credit from a syndicate of 36 banks headed by Manhattan's First National City Bank...
...hours of test flying, firm orders (155 v. 123), expected delivery dates (late 1958 v. mid-1959). But Douglas will try a new angle to catch up. Instead of test-flying one plane, as Boeing has, Douglas will send up first eight or nine DC-8s for 60 hours or more each, thus hopes to accumulate enough flight time to get CAB certification quickly...