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...campaign against Conservative Robert Stanfield, the sensible but restrained former premier of Nova Scotia, may have irrevocably changed the pace and style of Canadian politics. In a DC-9 jet and a helicopter, Trudeau bounced around the country as if it were the size of Rhode Island. Wherever he went, he brought glamour, style, movement. Matrons as well as teeny-boppers flocked to his side. He stressed participation, involvement, brought together a campaign army of talented, worshipful political amateurs as well as old pros. "This country is just beginning to burst into its greatness," he said in speeches reminiscent...
...million into its development, the plane scarcely matches the promised performance of U.S. airbuses. Lockheed's L-1011, for example, will fly almost twice as far, carry more passengers (345 v. 298), cost $15 million as against the A-300's $11 million. McDonnell Douglas' DC-10 holds a somewhat similar edge. And the U.S. models are due to go into commercial service in 1971, at least a year sooner than the European version...
...appeared, improbably enough, in the Cameroons. There, while investigating a surge in charters of their crop-dusters, Britten and Norman found that the planes were being used to fill an air-travel void left by the retirement of World War II-vintage DC-3s. The partners wasted no time in starting a study of air-taxi services in all parts of the world. What they found was that the average flight was less than 50 miles. The high speed (180 m.p.h. and up) of the typical four-to-five-passenger, $70,000 executive plane then in use on most such...
...competing airplanes, along with a third, Boeing's 747-300, are almost identical. "On a technical basis, all three aircraft weighed out just about the same," said United President George E. Keck. "All three are excellent products of engineers' genius." What finally decided United on the DC-10 was what Keck called "favorable contractual terms." In other words, to come closer to Lockheed's $15 million offer, McDonnell Douglas had cut down its price per plane by almost $1,000,000-to $155 million, including engines. And the cut now applies to the American order as well...
Price also seemed to be the key reason behind the choice of engines for United's DC-10s. All the planes to be built by Lockheed will be powered by British Rolls-Royce turbines. United, however, opted for General Electric's CF6/36 turbofan at slightly over $2 million per plane, putting the U.S. enginemaker a bit below Rolls. It is a price that may well move American to choose G.E. engines...