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They do indeed, specifically, when Dana Andrews suffers a heart attack while piloting his light plane over Salt Lake and crashes into the 747, killing or injuring the entire flight crew and blowing a large hole in the cockpit...
Field & Stream (circ. 1,860,000), a monthly devoted to duck hunting, fishing and other woodsy pursuits, hardly seems like a cockpit of ideological controversy. Yet in recent weeks its owner, the Columbia Broadcasting System, has been the target of angry letters and calls from the environment and conservation lobbies. Some of the protests came from members of Congress, including Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Conservation and Natural Resources. Then 50 irate conservationists waved placards in front of CBS's Washington office. Cause of the wrath: the firing of Field & Stream's widely known conservation...
...date and expensive electronic organ in the world. Carrying a price tag of $200,000, it took 23 months to design, construct and install. The finished product fairly bulges with audio-oscillators, sine-wave generators, filters, printed circuits and multiplex cables, plus enough knobs and controls to furnish the cockpit of a Boeing...
...craft would weigh some 320 tons. But its designers estimate that Megalifter would require a takeoff speed of no more than 70 m.p.h. and a runway distance of only about 2,400 ft. to become airborne, and could cruise at 205 m.p.h. Many of its components, such as the cockpit, engine controls and landing gear, are identical to the C-5A's, which would reduce design and manufacturing costs for the giant craft...
...reason for Allegheny's success is that its routes are heavily concentrated in the densely populated East ern Seaboard area. Another reason is the management strategy of Barnes, 57, an earthy, fiercely cost-efficient administrator. In 21 years in the corporate cockpit, Barnes has steadily strengthened Allegheny through precise scheduling and by ridding it of its small-town runs. Barnes also runs a marketing and planning division that probably is the best in the industry. Two years ago, he inspired a joint ticketing and routing operation with Pan American that enables an Allegheny passenger in, say, Canton, Ohio...