Word: inflight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the airlines presented only fragmentary estimates based on remarkably unsophisticated tests (inflight questionnaires asking if Youth Fare had induced the student to fly), the Examiner could find no evidence to suggest that Youth Fare was in fact unreasonable. Youth Fare was paying its own way and making a profit besides: full-fare passengers were not subsidizing students, as many of them believed. The fact that Youth Fare was profitable had another implication: the airlines would try to block acceptance of the Examiner's report designed to eliminate the service...
...most remarkable shots, taken by Lovell as Gemini 7 soared over the Wadi Hadhramaut region in Aden, shows with exceptional clarity a delicate, frostlike pattern of valleys and ridges that should delight both cartographers and geologists. One shot shows Borman concentrating on the use of an inflight vision tester; another shows Lovell peering out of his capsule, admiring the incomparable view from orbit. A closeup picture of Borman illustrates the effects of zero G in space: hovering near his head is a camera-film magazine floating weightlessly during orbit...
...experts: the crash victims died because "for some reason or other, their time had come." Luckily, even in Hollywood the CAB shows little inclination to ponder the inscrutable. So Ford plods ahead to prove that Kismet was probably just a little short circuit. Hunter seems an unlikely choice for inflight screenings. Passengers on the ground may view it at their own risk...
...because of its cost, but that does not seem to bother the American lines much. (Pakistan-oddly enough-is the only foreign country whose airline shows movies, but that is bound to change.) TWA spends up to $2,000,000 a year to lease its equipment and movies from Inflight Motion Pictures, which developed the idea. Installation of Continental's system, developed by California's Ampex Corp., will cost about $45,000 a plane. For its Astrovision, made by Sony of Japan, American Airlines pays $52,000 a plane; it puts out another $1,000,000 a year...
California's Ampex Corp. has developed a similar system, called "Travelvision" for showing movies and television on planes, ships, buses and trains, and within two months will install the first system in a U.S. airline. Flexer's Inflight has 35 systems working aloft for TWA, another four for Pakistan International Airlines; it has also obtained a waiver of its exclusive TWA contract so that it can service noncompeting routes, is presently negotiating with one international and four domestic lines...