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...Protection. The point of dispute is where the flight inspectors should sit. Directly behind the captain's seat in the cockpits of DC-8s and Boeing 707s is the forward observer's seat. The FAA maintains that its inspectors must use this seat in order to observe the crew properly. But for A.L.P.A. this seat has a special significance. Last year after bitter wrangling with the airlines, A.L.P.A. got the right to have a third pilot sit in this seat on American, TWA, Eastern and Pan American jet planes; it was the union's way of ensuring...
...York's Idlewild Airport last week, a trim, white-painted jetliner, smaller than the familiar Boeing 7075 and Douglas DC-8s. roared off the runway and headed south on Delta Air Lines Flight 873 to New Orleans. In 2 hr. 19 min., the jet touched down at New Orleans' Moisant International Airport, loaded another batch of passengers, and whistled back to New York in 2 hr. 10 min. Both flights, at speeds up to 593 m.p.h., set new commercial records for the 1,184-mile run and sent the nation's newest jetliner off to a high...
...Douglas' problems is its new DC-8 jetliner. Though Douglas has orders for 156 DC-8s, development expenses were so much more than anticipated that the firm is not yet near breaking even. Douglas also had to redesign parts of the DC-8 after the plane failed to meet its initial guarantees (Douglas' explanation: the DC-8 will go as fast as claimed-550 m.p.h.-but has to burn too much fuel to do so). Losses on the DC-8 contributed heavily to a net loss of nearly $34 million reported by the company for the year ending...
...year ago there were only three U.S. airlines operating pure jets, and their pace-setting handful of the swift new giants invariably took off with nearly every seat filled. Today, ten U.S. carriers fly a combined fleet of 92 Boeing 707s and DC-8s, with more being rapidly delivered. Despite the increased competition and the fact that stormy January, in the words of a TWA officer, is "one month the airlines would like to forget," last month's load figures show the jets still astonishingly popular with travelers...
...nothing could save Douglas Aircraft Co. from a hefty 1959 loss as a result of heavy charge-offs against its new DC-8 jet transport program. The firm reported a loss of $33.8 million, compared with a $16.8 million profit in 1958. However, it expects peak deliveries of DC-8s in 1960 to boost overall sales to more than $1 billion-and profits with...