Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quick inspection of Eastern's fleet of 111 older 727s turned up some disquieting results. One 24-year-old Eastern jetliner was grounded in Boston after the airline's mechanics discovered a 3-in. crack in roughly the same area as the one on Flight 251. And apparent corrosion near some rivets on its fuselage grounded another 727 in Miami. The plane involved in last week's incident had had seven other unscheduled landings since 1983, and recent safety inspections had uncovered two structural cracks...
...with its affluence and industrial might, is by far the most profligate offender. Each year Americans throw away 16 billion disposable diapers, 1.6 billion pens, 2 billion razors and blades and 220 million tires. They discard enough aluminum to rebuild the entire U.S. commercial airline fleet every three months. And the country is still struggling to clean up the mess created by the indiscriminate dumping of toxic waste. Said David Rall, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: "In the old days, waste was disposed of anywhere you wanted -- an old lake, a back lot, a swamp...
...bits of sagebrush. The narrow ribbon of tarmac at Zvartnots airfield looked like a crowded parking lot: an American military C-141, its tail marked with a large Stars and Stripes, an Algerian transport plane, a commercial Austrian airliner -- in all, about 15 foreign planes, not counting a regular fleet of Soviet Ilyushin 76s and Tupelev 154s. Hundreds of dark-clad figures milled about. The usual tight military control that exists at every Soviet airport seemed to have all but broken down...
...based America West Airlines, which ordered 25 Boeing 737s and 757s last week, will take delivery of the first one in 1992. The jet-building boom may well last a decade or more. One Douglas study estimates that 2,500 commercial airliners -- 40% of the world's commercial-jet fleet of 6,200 planes -- will be retired during the next 15 $ years...
...same time, airlines have increased their vigilance against the danger of overstressed, older planes since an incident last April, when the fuselage of a 1969-vintage Aloha Airlines 737 peeled open at 24,000 ft. The average age of the 5,253 planes in the U.S. fleet is 14 years; some 43% of jets were built more than 20 years ago. Another shopping incentive for U.S. carriers: tighter noise regulations. The newest jets are as much as 30% quieter than their predecessors...