Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control surfaces and throttle all the way to touchdown. British aviation authorities may certify the VC-10 and other aircraft for fully automatic landings in zero-visibility conditions on regular passenger flights as early as 1969. But U.S. landing systems are also being perfected. Last month a Pan Am jet made a fully automatic landing at New York using a system developed jointly by Boeing and the Sperry Phoenix...
...will remain at his El Segundo, Calif., headquarters as president and chief executive officer of North American Rockwell. The Rockwells, Sr. and Jr., will be based in Pittsburgh as chairman and vice chairman. And, what with North American's $1.2 million Sabreliners and Rockwell's $575,000 Jet Commanders, distance should be no problem...
...This is Mac calling all the team." The voice crackles with authority as loudspeakers carry it to every corner of the sprawling aerospace plant on the rim of St. Louis' Lambert Field. It sparkles with an enthusiasm that rises above the inescapable racket of jet aviation?the rumble of commercial planes lifting off the long runways, the ear-shattering passage of military fighters climbing aloft on steep, improbable curves...
...known to his 46,000 teammates, has built and babied his McDonnell Co. from nothing into a $1 billion-a-year corporation. With his performance in the manufacture of Mercury and Gemini space capsules, he gave U.S. astronauts an essential boost into space. His jet planes were among the few ready to carry U.S. airmen into combat in Korea; for Viet Nam he has produced the F-4 Phantom, the hottest fighter yet flown in combat by any air force in the world. By his dedication to technical precision, he has turned his company into a sudden and surprising front...
Even then, Douglas was in a downdraft. Part of the trouble was that strong-willed Donald Wills Douglas Sr., now 74, had waited too long to move into commercial jet transports; the DC-8 lagged a year behind Boeing's profit-laden 707?and Douglas has yet to break even on the venture. After Donald Jr., now 49, took over the presidency, the company grossly underestimated both the demand and costs for its 90-plus passenger, twin-jet DC-9. Labor and parts shortages snarled production lines, and as a result Douglas lost at least $600,000 on each...