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South Florida's Everglades Jetport is a fancy name for a concrete runway in the middle of nowhere. For the past few weeks 70 Eastern Air Lines pilots have been shooting practice landings there to familiarize themselves with the A300 Airbus, a twin-engine, European-made wide-bodied jet. Eastern plans to introduce four of the 229-passenger, 600 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...
DIED. William M. Magruder, 54, crew-cut former test pilot who headed the federal su personic transport program; of a heart attack; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Magruder was a test pilot for the B-52 bomber and played a major role in developing the L-1011 airbus. Although he argued forcefully for the SST, the program was defeated in 1971, and he became a special technology consultant to President Nixon, spurring increased Government fund- ing for mass transit, energy research and highway safety projects. In 1973 Magruder resigned to become executive vice president of Piedmont Aviation...
...Last year all three had comparable sales: $3.2 billion for Lockheed, $3.5 billion for McDonnell Douglas and $3.9 billion for Boeing. But while McDonnell Douglas earned a profit of $109 million and Boeing $103 million, Lockheed netted only $39 million. Reason: an operating loss of $125 million on the airbus. The news this year is no better. In the first six months, Lockheed's profits rose to $25.5 million, from $22.2 million a year earlier, but they would have been three times as large without a $52.7 million TriStar write-off. Lockheed's share of the commercial...
...escaped. Wilfried Böse, a long time member, took part last year in the hijacking of the Air France Airbus to Entebbe. When a Jewish hostage who had survived a concentration camp showed Bose his inmate registration number tattooed on his arm, Bose was indignant. I'm no Nazi!" he protested...
Died. Sergei Ilyushin, 82, Soviet aeronautics genius who designed more than 50 different airplanes, including the new IL-86 airbus soon to be put into service; in Moscow. Ilyushin's heavily armored low-flying tank buster called the Stormovik destroyed so many Nazi tanks in World War II that the Germans dubbed it "the flying death...