Word: 8s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airlines will soon enter a period of change that will be almost as pronounced as the arrival of the jet age. Late this year, they will begin to fly the huge Boeing 747 jets, which are faster, quieter, bigger and potentially much more profitable than the 707s and DC-8s. In the first test flight last week, a 747 cruised for more than one hour and then made a smooth landing near Boeing's Everett, Wash., plant. "This plane is ridiculously easy to fly," said Test Pilot Jack Waddell. "It's a pilot's dream...
...which engaged high-power political bigwigs to plead their cases. When the matter reached the White House, President Johnson divided new Pacific passenger routes among five airlines, but bypassed Eastern altogether (TIME, Dec. 27). That left Eastern Chairman Floyd Hall committed to buy $48 million worth of stretched DC-8s, which are designed for long-haul routes...
Ever since he drove at the Brickyard in 1948 (and crashed in the qualifying trials), Andy Granatelli, 44, has dreamed of building a car that would win the Indianapolis 500, the world's richest auto race. In the early '60s, his monstrous (837 h.p.) Novi V-8s hit 200 m.p.h. on the Indy straightaways, but always fell prey to one bug or another. Last year Granatelli came tantalizingly close with his revolutionary, turbine-powered STP Special, driven by Parnelli Jones, which missed winning only because a $6 ball bearing failed with eight miles to go. This...
...regular overseas routes, has applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board to begin nonmilitary service to the Far East. Confident of getting the go-ahead, the company last year opened a new $4.5 million base in Los Angeles, also ordered ten of Douglas' new jumbo-size DC-8s to increase its long-haul capacity. With that expansion came the need to beef up top management...
...only 40 years ago that Charles A. Lindbergh did it, but now an average of nearly 24,000 people fly the Atlantic - every day. Most of them are eating their way across on the 707s and DC-8s, but down below there is a growing little flock of private adventurers who get their vacation kicks by playing Lindy - crossing the sea in a small plane with little but an extra load of gas and faith in their own skill. Last year about 300 private planes made the trip, and already in the first five months of this year, more than...