Word: electras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WESTERN AIR LINES is taking its first step into the jet age. It will buy nine 410-m.p.h. Lockheed Electra propjet transports (cost: $19.5 million), put them into service in 1959-60. Another jet order: from West Germany's Lufthansa, which is joining the transatlantic jet race by spending about $20 million for four pure-jet Boeing 707s...
FIRST FOREIGN LINE to fly Lockheed's 410-m.p.h. turboprop Electra will be The Netherlands' KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, which has ordered twelve of the transports (total cost: $30 million) for delivery in late 1959. Lockheed now has 116 Electras on order, expects to sell more to European airlines...
...JETLINER will be designed by Convair as competition for Lockheed's turboprop Electra. A four-jet, 580-m.p.h. aircraft powered by General Electric J-79 engines, Convair's pure jet will be smaller than the 125-passenger Douglas DC-8 and Boeing 707, will aim at medium-range (up to 2,000 miles) routes. Projected delivery date: sometime...
...upwards of $200 million in expansion plans to add another 1,320,000 tons of capacity. In aviation, National Airlines, which has already ordered six pure-jet Douglas DC-8s, took another step into the new air age with a $46 million order for 20 new 415-m.p.h. Lockheed Electra turboprop transports...
Last week Curtice and Eastern Air Lines Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker jointly announced that Eastern's 40 new Lockheed Electra airliners, scheduled for service in 1958, will be powered by $26 million worth of Allison turboprop engines...