Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment pur terrible terrestrial predicament, what is needed in the air are small vertical or short takeoff aircraft operating with a minimum of fuss, short loading times, and flying only when and where demanded. The next installment fashioned by our current political incompetents is the ultimate mumbo jumbo of aviation-the bloody, ear-splitting SST. We have been to the moon and demonstrated some kind of "supremacy"; why not call it quits...
...American executives knew that they would run into all sorts of problems in getting their 747 jumbo jets through what airmen call a new plane's "learning curve," and they tried to anticipate as many as possible (TIME cover, Jan. 19). But a variety of major and minor difficulties, some of which could hardly have been anticipated, last week turned the 747's first commercial flight from New York to London into an alternately frustrating and funny experience for the 352 passengers...
...Airlines on the North Atlantic route, and it faces a flock of new competitors on transpacific routes that it once all but monopolized. Now, with the 747, Pan Am is taking one of the larger risks in business history. It has committed $1 billion to buy 33 of the jumbo jets and create the facilities to handle them. The company is staking its corporate future on the big ship...
...supersonophiles are winning, and the U.S. SST is likely to be in service by the late 1970s or early 1980s. The lines are expected to have a broad mix of planes and fares: premium prices on the SST, regular tariffs on jumbo jets, somewhat lower fares on older jets. By then, the problems of air travel will have multiplied, creating an even greater need for improved control of airspace, more airports, better ground transportation and bigger, more efficient terminals. Halaby worries because public investment in such facilities has always lagged five to ten years behind technological innovation...