Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Levin has other ideas. In The Boys from Brazil, he pulls 64-year-old Mengele out of shady retirement to play a grotesque caricature of himself. As he did in Rosemary's Baby, Levin bases his new plot on a perversion of planned parenthood. This time the mumbo jumbo of the occult has been replaced by the gizmos of science fiction...
...observers outside, the Concorde's engines seem anything but quiet. Takeoff noise, as measured at London's Heathrow Airport, was four times as loud as that produced by a 747 jumbo...
...will probably be a long wait. Not only Lockheed but the entire U.S. commercial aircraft industry is in such a deep slump that there is no market for surplus planes. Worldwide deliveries of U.S.-made jetliners tumbled from 332 planes in 1974 to 282 last year. Jumbo jets, the big-ticket items, led the dive. McDonnell Douglas (revenues through September 1975: $2.6 billion) sold 14 of its DC-10s in 1974, but got orders for only eleven in the first nine months of 1975. Boeing ($2.7 billion through September) watched its sales of 747s drop from...
...economy higher. But then came the wave of increases in oil prices. Aviation fuel, which even at lie per gal. in 1973 represented 20% of an airplane's operating costs, soared to 33? in the U.S. (72? abroad). The climb at least doubled the fuel portion of each jumbo jet's operating costs. Inflation drove up landing fees, insurance rates, wages. To stay solvent, the airlines had to hike fares...
...improvements in commercial planes. An order for cargo transports that has pitted McDonnell Douglas YC-15 against Boeing's YC-14 could have that effect. The manufacturers are also trying to adapt existing jetliners to new uses. Boeing has already developed a smaller version of its original jumbo jet called the 7475P. It will carry 100 fewer passengers (capacity: 280 seats), burn 10% less fuel and fly much faster than its parent. These advantages persuaded Pan Am officials to stretch the airline's thin financial resources to lease five of the planes for the New York-to-Tokyo...