Word: 8s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thick smokescreen surrounding one of the biggest mysteries of commercial aviation is clearing at last. Airlines will soon have to replace their aging fleets of about 1,500 707s, 727s and DC-8s, but existing models are too big or too small to meet the demand for an intermediate-range plane carrying 180 to 200 people. Many aerospace manufacturers have been reluctant to build new planes until they learn what Boeing, the industry leader, is going to do. Now Boeing seems to have settled on a basic design for a "high technology" jet. Says Jerry Cosley, TWA's director...
...prospect for the industry is a long period of moderate, steady growth, extending into the '80s. By 1985, according to one Lockheed economist, the world's airlines will have to spend up to $57 billion to replace present fleets of arthritic 707s and DC-8s. The expectation is that most airlines will turn to wide-bodied jets, to reduce mileage and passenger seat costs. Currently, Boeing engineers are working on the specifications for a new 180-to 200-seat jet, which it hopes United and Delta will buy; the plane would seat seven abreast and, Boeing claims, effectively...
...shocked the industry by canceling plans to buy 50 planes because of the uncertain economic outlook. Its new planes, like those for the other carriers, will be replacements only and will not increase the size of United's fleet. United will trade in 28 of its old DC-8s to Boeing and will finance the purchase with existing cash plus money generated internally from earnings and depreciation. It will be getting quieter, more economic planes. Each of them, United executives estimate, will save 1,300 gallons of fuel ($428 worth) over the old DC-8s on a single fully...
...most intense insurgent pressure remains concentrated against besieged Phnom-Penh. With the Mekong River lifeline choked off, the capital is now solely dependent on the U.S. "rice birds"- DC-8s and C-130s whose pilots brave Khmer Rouge rockets to ferry in food, fuel and ammunition. Money for the airlift will be exhausted by the end of April unless the U.S. Congress, when it reconvenes April 7, surprises everybody and approves a $222 million supplemental Cambodian aid appropriation. Last week the strategically important town of Tuol Leap, only six miles to the northwest of Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport...
...airport, which is hit almost daily, American-owned DC-8s scream down the runway hourly and trundle up in front of the small passenger terminal, where they disgorge up to 45 tons of ammunition each. Across the field, camouflaged American C-130s buzz in and out every 20 minutes with loads of ammunition, while little Cambodian air force two-seater T-28s dart in and out from their bombing runs...