Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order backlog of 1,063 commercial jets valued at $80 billion. Delivery dates are in danger of slipping as the company tries to meet surging demand from airlines eager to modernize their aging jet fleets. Earlier this year Boeing was forced to stretch out delivery schedules for its newest jumbo, the 747-400, and to hire hundreds of workers from rival Lockheed to get the program back on a credible schedule. Last week Boeing executives were reassuring customers that the strike, if it is short, would not mean further delivery delays...
With the win, the Crimson avenged a loss to Tufts from last season, when the Crimson "C" team was tested against the Tufts "A". After that game, a Tufts newspaper lambasted the Crimson and gloated over the Jumbo...
...acre repair center in San Francisco, the largest in the U.S., that the carrier has begun to phase out its lucrative business of providing maintenance for other airlines. Maintenance projects at the base can require up to 100,000 mechanic-hours for the overhaul of a single 747 jumbo jet. "We've added 3,000 people in less than a year," says Joseph O'Gorman, United's senior vice president for maintenance operations, "and we're looking at another 1,000 in the next six months for the care and feeding of older planes." But that is just the beginning...
Despite recent structural mishaps with McDonnell Douglas' problem-plagued DC- 10 jumbo jet, the aircraft manufacturer plans to add an additional fuel tank beneath the rear engine of an updated version of the plane called the MD- 11. Some startled pilots at Delta Air Lines -- which is buying the new plane -- are outraged that the designers would place 2,000 gal. of combustible fuel right under the same engine that disintegrated last month on a United Airlines DC-10. If the controversial fuel bladder had been on the ill-fated United plane when the engine disintegrated, the pilots...
What if a less skilled captain had been at the controls of that jumbo jet, struggling under emergency conditions that no pilot had ever faced? Or if an off-duty airline pilot, who happened to be on board, had not rushed to the cockpit to assist him? Or if the 181-ft.-long aircraft had ripped apart in even a slightly different way? Or if that Sioux City cornfield had been drought baked and hard instead of rain soaked and soft...