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...lower deck and as many as 122 passengers on the top deck. T.C.A. will take delivery on its Vanguards in the fall and winter of 1960-61, retire or sell all its piston-engine planes, wind up with an airfleet composed entirely of jet-powered Viscounts, Vanguards and DC-8s...
Delta Airlines signed up for six Douglas DC-8s costing $28.5 million. Jet box score to date: 111 Douglas DC-8s v. 83 Boeing 707s...
...construction of all kinds for 1956. With increasing steel shortages, two more companies-Sharon Steel and National Steel -announced upwards of $200 million in expansion plans to add another 1,320,000 tons of capacity. In aviation, National Airlines, which has already ordered six pure-jet Douglas DC-8s, took another step into the new air age with a $46 million order for 20 new 415-m.p.h. Lockheed Electra turboprop transports...
...TRANSPORT ORDERS are still climbing. The latest: Eastern Air Lines for 26 Douglas DC-8s (six with Pratt & Whitney J57 engines the rest with bigger J75s) worth $165 million, for delivery starting in May 1959; Japan Air Lines for four L>C-8s worth $27 million, for delivery m 1960; Continental Air Lines for four Boeing 707s worth $21.3 million, for delivery in May 1959. Orders and options to date: 99 Douglas DC-8s, 60 Boeing 707 jetliners...
...Douglas is getting hotter. Braniff Airways has given Boeing a boost with a $30 million order for five 707s packing Pratt & Whitney J75 engines (v. smaller J57s on earlier 707s), will use them on both overseas and domestic runs. Sales score to date: 69 of Douglas' DC-8s, 60 of Boeing's 707s, including an option for five from Belgium's Sabena Airlines...