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Sitting idly aboard an airliner one day in 1956, a Tennessee theater-chain owner named David Flexer was struck by how much the cabin resembled a screening room. Flexer's brainstorm: Why not show movies in flight? He formed a company called Inflight Motion Pictures, Inc., spent five years developing a compact, shock-resistant projector and screen with the help of Trans World Airlines...
...began showing movies on its overseas flights in 1961, has remained the only U.S. airline to show movies in the air, largely because of an exclusive contract it made with Inflight. The line has steadily expanded its movies to U.S. transcontinental flights, has found them a popular drawing card that has helped increase its passenger load 24% since 1961. Now TWA's days of exclusivity are nearly over, and the U.S. public is about to be served movies as commonly as meals in flight. Last week American Airlines announced that it will put on its own show for passengers...
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...
Moving Movies. First-run motion pictures will be entertaining passengers on some of TWA's coast-to-coast jet flights beginning Jan. 4. The system, developed by New York's Inflight Motion Pictures, Inc., has an automatic projector in the ceiling and a screen at the front of the cabin for each class. So that passengers who want to read or sleep will not be disturbed, movie watchers wear featherweight ear sets with volume controls...
...have a military air fleet of between 18,000 and 20,000 planes, mostly jets. Their bombing force-about equal in number to that of the U.S. Strategic Air Command-consists of about 1,500 jets and turboprops. Most of this force is shortrange, but the U.S.S.R. has developed inflight refueling techniques that provide enough range to make round-trip missions to the U.S. And though their Bison and Badger bombers are inferior to the U.S.'s B-47s and B-52s (and Russian airplane maintenance and crew-training are low grade), the criterion of a good bomber...