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...ELECTRA SPEED of more than 400 m.p.h. will be resumed next month by all 28 of American Airlines' Electra fleet. The planes, which were throttled back after two crashes showed weaknesses in the wings, are now called Electra II because all have had wing members strengthened...
EASTERN AIRLINES LOST money last year for the first time in its 26 years. Losses were $3.6 million v. $11.4 million profits in 1959. Reasons: Electra troubles, twelve-day pilots' strike, the recession...
...guard did not recognize them (said one Marine later: "They looked like Russians"). They were handed over to U.S. officials; Ambassador Thompson briefed them on the cloak-and-dagger arrangements that had been made to get them out of Russia unrecognized. Seats had already been reserved on a KLM Electra-under other names. Crisp new passports with Soviet exit visas were ready. There was barely time to smoke an American cigarette before they were rushed to Sheremetyevo Airport...
Just as their plane taxied toward takeoff, there was a sudden jolt. Two tires blew out. While spares were flown from Warsaw, the Electra's passengers were taken back to the airport terminal. McKone and Olmstead made the long hour's drive back to the U.S. embassy. No one could say when their plane would be ready to leave, and every passing minute increased the possibility of a news leak. The two men were spirited into the ninth-floor apartment of the embassy's air attaché, Colonel Melvin J. Nielsen. Embassy electricians were ordered...
...flying from Cairo to Moscow because several Afro-Asian notables happened to be among the 27 killed (TIME, Sept. 5). After the crash the IL-18 was briefly grounded. The trouble seemed to be with the engine mountings (as with its U.S. counterpart, the Lockheed Electra) and with the engines. But IL-18s kept landing at African airfields as Russia's contribution to the U.N. Congo airlift. Inference was that whatever ailed the plane had been mended. Not so, a Russian IL-18 crew member at an African airport guardedly informed a TIME correspondent last week. In addition...