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...plane will also be highly economical. Its engine will sip far less fuel than current models. Result: the 767, which will replace DC-9s as well as 707s and older 727s, will carry as many or more passengers for one-third less fuel...
...claims, effectively compete with McDonnell Douglas' DC-10 and Lockheed's TriStar L-1011. Meanwhile, Lockheed is coming up with a sleeker version of the L-1011, to be delivered to British Airways next year. McDonnell Douglas, already flush with orders for its DC-10s and DC-9s, is gearing up to produce a stretched DC-9 "Super 80"; the company claims it will be the quietest and most fuel-efficient plane ever flown...
...m.p.h. planes for a six-month trial on its prime New York-Florida routes in time for the Christmas rush. If all goes well, says President Frank Borman, Eastern may buy as many as 50 Airbuses at $25 million each to replace aging Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9s...
Anderson further has the luck to take over at a time when the always cyclical civilian aircraft industry seems to be starting on an upswing. Although McDonnell Douglas' deliveries of DC-9s and DC-10s will drop from 65 in 1976 to 37 this year, the company has already booked orders for 54 planes to be finished in 1978. Executives and industry analysts expect the upturn to continue. Some airlines have more money to buy planes because traffic is rising and earnings are improving (even Pan Am may report a profit for the first time in nine years...
...Western Europe and Japan, where the goal of reducing the possibility of human error is pursued with zeal and effectiveness, the safety record is also good. For the most part, major foreign airlines fly the same American-made planes as U.S. carriers?Boeings and McDonnell Douglas DC-9s and DC-10s. In Europe, particularly in France, Great Britain, West Germany and the other industrialized countries, airline technology is fully as sophisticated as it is in the U.S., and in some aspects the Europeans are more advanced. France, for example, uses a battery of jet engines to blast away fog from...