Word: dc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...service, which will force airlines to change schedules, perhaps drop the planes from some routes. Items: ¶ A 295-m.p.h. limit was placed on cruising at the normal operational altitudes, 105 m.p.h. under the Eiectra's normal cruising speed, bringing it down to the speed of the older DC-ys. ¶ Immediate inspection of wing and fuselage spar for signs of structural damage. Each aircraft must be rechecked after it has been in severely turbulent air or made a hard landing...
Theory. The possibility that the Tell City crash was caused by air turbulence and metal fatigue was a likely starting theory, but so was another one-that of another bomb explosion like the one that brought down a National Airlines DC-6B in North Carolina ten weeks ago (TIME, Jan. 18). Said CAB Safety Investigation Chief Philip Goldstein at week's end: "The structure was subjected to forces greater than it was designed for. We have definite evidence of a wing failure. Why this wing failure, I don't know...
...under travel orders, came to a handsome $235 million.) The lines are out to get even more of the Government's airtransport business. Congress has long sided with the airlines, ignored the steady decline of MATS; e.g., last year the House gunned down a MATS request for ten DC-8 jets costing $66 million...
Bouncing over Africa's mountains in chartered DC-3s and over its hills in Jeeps, dead tired, 15 Ibs. lighter than when he started, and with recurring eye trouble, Billy Graham wound up his seven-week "Safari for Souls" last week, still going at a pace that often left his followers limp. His only major difficulty was insomnia, and he remarked that he spent most of his sleepless hours in prayer: "I figure God had some reason for keeping me awake...
...Civil Aeronautics Board last week confirmed that the fatal crash of a National Airlines DC-6B in North Carolina (TIME, Jan. 18) was caused by sabotage. Reported CAB Chairman James Durfee: "We have found evidence that a dynamite explosion, initiated by a dry-cell battery, occurred within the aircraft cabin in the vicinity of the seat occupied by Julian Frank." Manhattan Lawyer Frank, deeply in debt, had insured his life for more than...