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There is testament to this in many newspapers. Every Sunday, for example, the Los Angeles Times has two full sections of advertisements for engineers that have been placed by some of the biggest names in U.S. business. Rockwell International claims to "meet the challenge head on." Convair pleads: "Hang on. Convair's coming to town." Says Douglas Boswell, a West Coast engineer recruiter: "When the right electrical engineer comes along, I can get him five interviews in a single...
...units, including houses and condominiums, plus commercial hangars for apartment dwellers with no access to the taxiways. Many air parks try to maintain the airborne motif throughout the community. At Colorado's 40-home Erie Air Park, near Boulder, the local restaurant is in a converted Convair 990 jetliner, and the "parking lot" out front is actually a taxiway where customers can roll up in their small planes...
...pride in raising his Arabian horses. He also supports orphanages in the U.S. and abroad. Often tongue-tied in public, his main relaxation is flying around the world in his two private planes. One was owned by Howard Hughes when he was escorting Jane Russell; his other craft, a Convair 440, is painted 14 shades of green, with a shamrock on the tail and a leprechaun near the entry hatch. Daly calls it "the jolly green giant," but less respectful mechanics know it as "the green pickle...
...Aeronautics Board. Perhaps too rapidly. It now struggles to maintain a schedule of 200 flights a day with scant working capital and a modest fleet of 20 propjet planes, which include its own 19-seat De Havilland Twin Otters and 48-passenger Fairchild 227s and two leased 50-seat Convair 580s. Seldom are there planes available for back-up use. So even though Air New England is classified in the same category as national carriers like Eastern and United, it continues to operate in much the same manner as the "commuter" airlines. These are what the industry bluntly describes...
...Robert Philpot, a Dallas oilman. In search of a promotion gimmick to introduce his new engine additive, called Add-A-Tune, Philpot offered to buy one of Presley's planes (for $2 million) and take it on a fund-raising tour for the church. Next week, the Convair 880, named Lisa Marie for Presley's daughter, will take off on two wings and a prayer for the Dallas Cowboys Texas Stadium and the start of a three-month, 50-state tour. For $300, visitors not only will get to climb aboard and "see where he slept when...