Word: dc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarkable Lockheed C-130 Hercules cruises at 350 m.p.h., carries 92 passengers, takes less runway than even a DC-4 and, at a pinch, can get in and out of airstrips only 2,000 ft. long. It has self-contained air starters for its turboprop engines and therefore does not need ground power-a vital factor in equipment-short Congo. Merritt's men sleep when and where they can-in hangars, machine shops, the planes themselves. They have been joyfully received in the Congo, and ground personnel as well as Congolese volunteers help in the unloading without pay. There...
...days, Algeria's rebels had backed and filled over Charles de Gaulle's renewed and more generous offer of peace negotiations (TIME, June 27). At first they refused to fly in an official French plane. Then, taking passage in a Tunis Air DC-4, the rebels finally dispatched a three-man "advance guard" headed by Ahmed Boumendjel, 52, who is "Premier"' Ferhat Abbas' version of Jim Hagerty. When their plane finally landed at Orly (one engine conked out en route), the rebel delegates were hastily whisked off by helicopter to Melun, where Roger Moris, De Gaulle...
...still another shapely airline hostess to go nightclubbing with: a 22-year-old Hawaiian beauty queen named Carol Ah You, who works for Great Lakes Air Lines and ac companied the President from San Fran cisco to Hawaii. Said Bung Karno, step ping off a charted Pan American DC-6B still staffed by favorite stewardess No. i, 25-year-old Joan Sweeney: "This has been much more successful than my earlier trips." But the old place was not much fun to come home to. Rebel and bandit fighting continued in Java, Sumatra, the Celebes and Borneo. The monetary reform...
...Protection. The point of dispute is where the flight inspectors should sit. Directly behind the captain's seat in the cockpits of DC-8s and Boeing 707s is the forward observer's seat. The FAA maintains that its inspectors must use this seat in order to observe the crew properly. But for A.L.P.A. this seat has a special significance. Last year after bitter wrangling with the airlines, A.L.P.A. got the right to have a third pilot sit in this seat on American, TWA, Eastern and Pan American jet planes; it was the union's way of ensuring...
...boost sales in the U.S., which last year passed the $1 billion mark, Britain is depending principally on the tried and tested. On display is the Rolls-Royce Conway by-pass jet engine, already powering newer models of both the DC-8 and Boeing 707. Sales of nonelectrical machinery jumped last year to $125 million, replacing Scotch as Britain's second largest export item to the U.S. Machinery manufacturers, trying harder than ever, were showing an extremely wide range of machines at the Coliseum from those that counted currency to those that made cigarettes...