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Though United disappointed Douglas by spurning its short-range DC-9 jet, it handed over $130 million worth of consolation: firm orders or options for 14 long-range DC-8s. Half of them constituted the very first order for the world's largest commercial jet: the DC-8-61. Now on the assembly line, the huge plane can carry 251 passengers, is a 36-ft. longer version of the DC-8, which accommodates 189 people. Eastern Airlines also ordered four DC-8-61s last week, and American Airlines, already committed to spending $205 million for 49 new Boeing...
Some 15 different airlines now fly the transatlantic run between New York and London, and all of them fly American-made planes: mostly Boeing's 707, with a few Douglas DC-8s. This has been a bit embarrassing for the British, and this week they begin to do something about it. Into passenger service across the Atlantic goes the new Super VC 10, made by British Aircraft Corp. and flown by British Overseas Airways Corp. Making the most of innovation and looking ahead to supersonic jets, BOAC is beckoning jaded transatlantic travelers to board "the most advanced aircraft...
...American World Air ways, Panair was once South America's proudest and biggest airline. It pioneered the first services to the Amazon basin, expanded throughout the country, carried Brazil's flag to London, Paris, Frankfurt and Rome. As the jet age began, Panair added DC-8s and Caravelles to its fleet of Constellations and Catalinas...
...sooner was Panair grounded than Varig moved in to pick up the pieces, loaded passengers booked on a Panair DC-8 directly onto a Varig Convair 990 for a Lisbon-Paris-Frankfurt flight. Now Berta is talking about renting two of Panair's DC-8s and assigning a new Varig Boeing 707 to the transatlantic service. It was a familiar routine for Berta & Co. Panair is the tenth Brazilian airline that Varig has swallowed in as many years...
...other airmen, today's competition seems like a reprise of the original, subsonic jet race a decade ago: Britain's Comets were the first aloft, but the Americans soon passed them with faster, larger, longer-flying 707s and DC-8s...