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...which a new company, Linee Aeree-Italiane Società Perazioni was to get an exclusive franchise to fly internal air routes: T.W.A. was to get a 40% interest in L.A.I. The British demanded that T.W.A. share its interest with the Government-owned British Overseas Airways Corp. T.W.A. President Jack Frye refused, saying that British and American equipment could not be profitably operated together...
While United Air Lines chalked up a rare crash (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS),Transcontinental & Western Air hung up a record. A TWA Constellation, with TWA President Jack Frye at the controls and 45 passengers aboard, flew from Los Angeles to New York in 7 hours 27 minutes nonstop last week: 6½ hours faster than most regularly scheduled airliners. Average speed: 329 m.p.h. Within the month, TWA will begin flying Constellations regularly on the route. Proposed time: 10 hours...
...same way, Bob Gross took on the job of building the Constellation. Howard Hughes and T.W.A. President Jack Frye wanted a transport plane which would fly farther, faster and carry a bigger load than anything in the air. When Consolidated Aircraft turned down the job, Lockheed accepted it. Then the Army ordered Lockheed to build it for the Air Forces; T.W.A. would have to wait. Thus, when the Army canceled its contracts after V-J day, Lockheed had the plane ready for the airlines...
Because of the war, the first one did not roll out of Lockheed's Burbank, Calif, plant until late in 1942, and it was for the Army. The Army liked it so well that it ordered 270 more. But Hughes and Frye had a chance to test the bird they had hatched. In the spring of 1944 they flew a Constellation across the continent in six hours, 58 minutes; another flew from New York to Paris in 14 hours, twelve minutes for the Army's Air Transport Command...
Fortnight ago the Army canceled its contract, made Constellations available to airlines. Now Hughes and Frye will get the first twelve Constellations before the other lines get any. By the time Pan Am et al get theirs, TWA expects to have such a start that the postwar air race will be just a vapor trail...