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Donald H. Menzel, director of the Observatory, headed the group, which included Gail Moreton, director of the Lockheed Solar Observatory in Burbank, Calif...
CHARLOTTE H. CURTIS Burbank, Calif...
...airlines obligating Lockheed to pay all direct modification costs, which it estimates will total $25 million. The lines, arguing successfully that they have already paid a high price in lost revenues and increased operating costs, will pay only minor expenses, such as flying the planes to Lockheed's Burbank, Calif, headquarters and test flights of the modified plane...
...Burbank, Calif, headquarters of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. last week, 50 commercial aviation leaders gathered to hear the answer to one of U.S. aviation's most fascinating and terrible riddles: What caused two Lockheed Electras to come apart in the sky over Texas and Indiana, killing 97 persons? To representatives of the Air Line Pilots Association and of 13 airlines (six of them foreign) now flying 136 Electras, Lockheed gave the answer: the doomed Electras' wings were torn off by a violent wing fluttering caused by a weakness in their engine nacelles...
Lockheed confirmed the theory by building an experimental wing at its Burbank, Calif. plant and duplicating the explosion conditions. The cure was as simple as the cause of the crash had been tough to pin down: Lockheed installed a flame-arrester screen on the vent pipe openings of all its planes, thus hopefully eliminating another opportunity for St. Elmo's fire to turn from a good omen to tragedy...