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...Provincetown-Boston Airline twin-engine turboprop took off just after 6 p.m. from Jacksonville International Airport for the short flight to Tampa. Within minutes the small commuter plane, one of 113 in P.B.A.'s fleet, apparently lost its tail section, slammed into a brush-bound clearing and burst into flames. The two-man crew and all eleven passengers were killed...
Federal Express invented the present overnight delivery system. Both Emery and Airborne for decades had shipped freight on commercial airliners. But Frederick Smith, 40, dreamed up the idea of combining a squadron of planes with a fleet of delivery vans. As legend has it, Smith first proposed the plan in a 1965 term paper that earned him a C in an economics course at Yale. After two tours in Viet Nam, one as a Marine pilot, Smith decided to use a $10 million inheritance to try out his idea, and founded Federal...
...truck version of Cannonball Run. The battle pushed down Federal's average price for an overnight shipment from $26.29 in 1981 to $19.36 this summer. Many of the rivals have copied Federal's formula. In 1981, Emery built a $60 million hub in Dayton and assembled a fleet of 67 planes. Airborne constructed its hub at an abandoned Strategic Air Command base in Wilmington, Ohio. The U.S. Postal Service has entered the field with its special $9.35 express mail service. In fiscal 1984 the USPS shipped some 41 million pieces of express mail...
...business. At the same time, the government was being pressed by Washington to abide by the ban. Despite this pressure, the Japanese announced that they would catch 400 sperm whales in the 1984-85 season, and in early November a four-ship whaling fleet put out to sea. Two weeks ago, one of the ships returned to port with two sperm whales...
Another stimulating aspect of being on the boat, said Mintz, was talking with the 150 member Taiwanese crew. The crew is Taiwanese because Tung's family operates the fleet out of Taiwan...