Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Speak Saroya." Darting in minutes later with only a camera to shoot, Major Hallet P. Marston, 37, of Miami, hit flak so dense that it twice kicked his RF-101 photo-jet into a 90° bank. A veteran of 101 Korean reconnaissance missions and 78 photo flights over North Viet Nam, Marston reported that he had "never run into more intense, aimed fire. When I varied, the fire varied." Nor did the flak let up until the attackers ducked behind a mountain ridge on the way home-after running a 60-mile flak alley leading away from the capital...
...Force pilots over Hanoi drew small comfort from the stringent warning to avoid residential areas. Their orders specified that if any plane got shot down outside a city, a jet protective patrol would be put overhead and a helicopter brought in to rescue them within the hour. If, however, a pilot crashed his aircraft in an urban area, he was told that he could "speak saroya," Air Force jargon for goodbye. Going in on the fourth wave over Hanoi, the pilot of the downed F-105 Thunderchief did in fact speak saroya: hit by crippling fire, he bailed out. Later...
...increases caused by rapid expansion, and an acute shortage of seasoned aircraft workers. The company has not only been forced to undertake expensive training programs but to hire 31,000 employees in six months. Most of all, Douglas has been hit by a slowdown in deliveries of Pratt & Whitney jet engines, diverted to fighter planes bound for Viet Nam. As a consequence, Douglas expects that it will have to delay until next year the completion of up to three DC-8s and 15 DC-9s anxiously awaited by airlines. During 1966, says President Donald Douglas Jr., "the company...
...half of Douglas' 1966 fiscal year, through May, profits have been nominal indeed: $645,000 on sales of $496 million. Only a tax credit of $990,000 kept Douglas from slipping into the red. Even though the company deferred part of its heavy development costs for the twin-jet DC-9, it lost money on the first 20 planes and failed to show a profit on a second group. Last week Douglas confirmed that it had raised the price for DC-9s by 4% from a minimum of $3,100,000. The increase became effective June 1, but because...
...passenger) liners and six DC-8F freighters, for $220 million. In a bid to capture still more of the swelling market for transports, Douglas last week rolled out the first production model of its DC-8-62, the world's longest-range (5,750 mi.) commercial jet, for flight testing. The company already has orders for 30 of them...