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...growing market of airborne communications. The airlines and the Air Force came to know Art Collins as a bold researcher. In 1937, for example, the Federal Communications Commission had a rule limiting aircraft radio transmitters to 50 watts. Collins developed a 100-watt transmitter that he sold to Braniff Airways. Pink FCC violation slips piled on Braniff's desk, but after a lengthy hassle, the FCC finally permitted Braniff and other carriers to raise their power. Says Collins: "In this business, everything begins with FCC saying no, and you start from there...
...TRANSPORT RACE between Boeing and 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...
THROUGH PLANE SERVICE between New York and South America is finally starting after seven years of controversy. Braniff and Eastern Air Lines will start the first plane interchange at Miami this week; Pan American and Panagra will start a second interchange service with National Airlines by early September. Under the plan, planes heading north and south will land at Miami, take on crews from their partner airlines for the last leg of the flights to New York and South America...
...between U.S. cities and such a wide array of Latin American points as Lufthansa might be able to do under the proposed agreement. Even worse, said the airline men, the Germans were about to get South American routes that even U.S. airlines have been unable to win. For years, Braniff has been anxious to fly to Colombia, but the State Department has allowed negotiations to drag. Under the deal, said the airlines, Lufthansa would get "a hunting license" for all South America...
...National Airlines carry heavy Latin American traffic between Miami and New York, traffic that Lufthansa would cut into with its through flights. Snapped National's Vice President Alexander Hardy: "If Lufthansa should get a through route, we'd be right back on subsidy." Both Pan American and Braniff, which already get a $14.5 million subsidy on their Latin American runs, would need still higher subsidies if Lufthansa won away many passengers. And with its lower costs (Lufthansa's German pilots get a maximum of $600 monthly v. a top of $1,700 for U.S. pilots), there...