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Beneath starlit skies in perfect flying weather, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 poised for takeoff at New York's Kennedy Airport. Aboard the four-motor DC-7B-a piston-driven model that Eastern is phasing out-were 79 passengers and a crew of five. Airport, control-tower operators routinely told the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center on Long Island that Flight 663 was about to execute a "Dutch Seven Departure," a takeoff pattern designed to avoid New York City by making a series of turns over the Atlantic before the plane headed toward Richmond and points south...
Minister Howe announced that Canada will immediately start production of a four-motor transport plane "that is considered probably the best plane of the next five years...
Magic Carpet. In a four-motor Liberator-type transport, the junketing Senators flew to the British Isles, to Casablanca, to Marrakech, Cairo, Basra and Calcutta, to Chungking (where they met China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek), to Australia, Guadalcanal (three days), and homeward via New Caledonia, the Fiji Islands, Honolulu and San Francisco...
...large-scale bombing attacks on Japan, as well as on Formosa, Hainan, Indo-China and other Japanese outpost bases. Particularly suited for such use would be the peninsula of Shantung Province, which reaches out toward Japan like an angry fist, and the great bulge of Chekiang Province, within four-motor range of half of Japan...
...other big disappointment was a war-baby issue - Boeing Airplane Co., which has given balding, brusque & burly President Philip Johnson plenty of grief as a result of its costly development of four-motor planes, is $4,740,000 in hock to RFC. Of 360,979 shares offered stock holders at $16 a share (mainly to repay the loan), last week 88,248 were still un subscribed and went on public sale. The stock was quoted on the market at 15 and a fraction, but some individual syndicate members were offering wholesale blocks of it at 15, even 14, finding...