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SUSAC now has at least 1,200 TU4 heavy bombers stationed at newly built bases in the Soviet arctic, only a few hours' flying time from the U.S. In the last year SUSAC crews have been trained intensively in instrument flying and tanker-refueling techniques for long-range raids (equaling round trips from Siberia to Los Angeles). They have been supplied with electronic bombsights, two new types of 600-m.p.h. jet bombers (the T-37 and T-39, resembling respectively the U.S. 6-52 and 6-47), and probably with hydrogen bombs...
Less cold air from the Arctic will come to New England, Brooks said, because of a unique combination of November pressures over the North Atlantic Ocean, and temperatures in eastern and central North America. He cited 14 instances including last fall, in the last 77 years, in which this phenomenon occurred...
From Los Angeles' fog-shrouded airport, a white and silver DC-6B of the Scandinavian Airlines System last week took off on the first scheduled commercial flight to Europe by way of the Arctic. By flying a great circle route, instead of across the continent to New York, SAS cuts the Los Angeles-Copenhagen route by 459 miles and the flying time by 2 hrs. 25 min. (The regular one-way fare of $574 saves the passenger $40; $970 round trip is $70 less.) Cruising at 300 m.p.h. at about 17,000 ft. altitude, SAS made only two stops...
...pioneer its Arctic route,* SAS has invested $600,000 in additional communications equipment and ground facilities. But on pioneering flights, SAS pilots have found the route better flying than the often stormy Atlantic. SAS frankly admits that its new route is a gamble, is well aware that U.S. lines have shied away from it as a money loser. SAS hopes, however, to pick up enough traffic from the West Coast to fill a minimum 22 of its 32 seats, the break-even point...
...Canadian Pacific Airlines has applied for a Vancouver to Amsterdam route by way of the Arctic...