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Pilot Jones, shrouded in whirling clouds, bucked the wind until he thought he was over Camden, then turned back to Newark. He missed Newark, missed New York, missed everything except a National Biscuit sign which flashed up once through the gloom, until he picked out an airway beacon...
About six weeks ago American Airlines got a new advertising agency-Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc. Shortly afterward there began to appear in newspapers and magazines large advertisements, decorated with a photograph of an exuberant girl in a bathing suit and captioned rhetorically: Is there a Low-Level Airway through Southern Sunshine to California? "Fortunately" said the advertisement, "the answer...
...Rocky Mountains extend from the Canadian border to the Mexican border, and no U. S. airline can get to California without flying over them. "United," he flatly counter-claimed, "flies fewer miles of mountainous terrain than the currently advertised 'Low Level Route.' Based on a normal airway width the highest point on United is lower than that on the other advertised route.* But," he added hastily, "what of it? United's route has as much sunshine and less annual precipitation, but again-what...
Charles A. Rheinstorm, vice president of American, answered: "It is definitely not true that we have a higher peak on our airway than United has on theirs.'' Mr. Patterson's remark about sunshine hurt Mr. Rheinstorm. "People usually concede that winter weather in the south is better than winter weather in the north, and the only people who are not willing to concede that are the United people...
...Patterson's "normal airway width" apparently does not coincide with the Department of Commerce airway width of 50 mi. Thus Hayden's Peak (12.473 ft.), near which United's "Mainliner" crashed in October, approximately 24 mi!es south of the centre of United's transcontinental lane, is evidently not considered on United':; regular right...