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...which British planemakers hoped would compete with Boeing and Douglas. The only jet transport now abuilding for commercial use is de Havilland's Comet Four, scheduled for delivery about the same time as the Boeing. But the Comet is slower, smaller and has a shorter range (no nonstop transatlantic flights...
...same big stretch that permitted Douglas to beef up its DC-4 into the DC-6 and DC-7. Even so, the first models will have plenty of speed for U.S. air travelers. Carrying 112 to 140 passengers United's swept-wing DC-8s will cross the U.S. nonstop at altitudes of 30,000 to 40,000 ft., speeds of 550 to 575 m.p.h. Los Angeles to New York will take only 4 hrs. 30 min., Chicago to New York...
Across the U.S. As a foretaste of what is to come, Boeing this week flew the prototype of the 707 on a nonstop flight from Seattle to Washington in 3 hr. 58 min., only 12 min. slower than the transcontinental record set by a Boeing B-47 bomber. Average speed: 592 m.p.h...
BOEING JET TRANSPORT is showing its legs in the hot competition with Douglas for airline orders. The sweptwing, four-jet 707 flashed nonstop 3,038 miles from Seattle to Denver, Los Angeles and back to Seattle. Cruising speed: 550 m.p.h...
...expansion and competition. Since the big trunk lines no longer need coddling, CAB has cleared its docket of a dozen major decisions, some of which had been hanging fire for seven years. Recently, it approved a whole series of competitive new routes. T.W.A., Capital and Northwest got new, nonstop runs between New York and Chicago in competition with United and American; United got a nonstop Chicago-to-Seattle run in competition with Northwest, while Northwest in turn got a local nonstop Detroit-to-New York flight in competition with American and United. To improve service between the Northeast and Southwest...