Word: panagra
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...million, the biggest in airline history. The deal is certain to be followed by plane purchase orders from other carriers. National Airlines is expected to sign for six DC-8s on which it took a verbal option last August. Other shoppers include United, American, Eastern, Air France, KLM and Panagra...
THROUGH PLANE SERVICE between New York and South America is finally starting after seven years of controversy. Braniff and Eastern Air Lines will start the first plane interchange at Miami this week; Pan American and Panagra will start a second interchange service with National Airlines by early September. Under the plan, planes heading north and south will land at Miami, take on crews from their partner airlines for the last leg of the flights to New York and South America...
...plane. Harris racked up 13 air records, test-piloted the first big U.S. bomber in 1922, the six-engine Barling. In 1926 he went to Peru, and flew crop-dusting planes, later became vice president and general manager of Peruvian Airways and from 1929-42 was operations manager of Panagra. Made a brigadier general in World War II, he bossed the training and domestic operations of the Air Transport Command, later managed operations for American Overseas Airlines until it merged with Pan Am in 1950. This week Airman Harris, a cautious man with airplanes, was just as cautious about...
...Soon he pried out information that the plane would need a new engine, might be held up in Belem for a day or two. Don Mauricio burned up the wires to New York-not to Pan American but to W. R. Grace & Co., Pan American's partner in Panagra. Panagra is the rival service that flies down South America's west coast...
Early next morning, a Panagra DC-6 landed in Belem on charter to Hochschild, having flown nearly 3,000 miles into territory where no Panagra plane had ever ventured before. Shortly afterward, the 57-passenger plane took off for New York, carrying Don Mauricio, his wife and nobody else. "What money won't do!" gasped one of the stranded passengers. Thirty-nine hundred miles and 12½ hours later, Hochschild's DC-6 touched down at New York's Idlewild airport, having just about shattered all known records for a private charter flight. Though Panagra declined...