Word: pans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, flew off aboard one of his jets to keep a golf date at his winter home in Borrego Springs, Calif. Patterson's retirement after 32 years as United's boss trims the ranks of early birdmen to two: American's Chairman C. R. Smith and Pan Am's Chairman Juan T. Trippe, both also...
Other members of the force de tour are the uninspired paperbacks by Pan Am and TWA, a surprisingly uninformative series by Holiday, a Rand McNally pocket guide. But the one that is making the biggest current splash is a brightly covered paperback called Europe on $5 a Day. Written by Manhattan Attorney Arthur Frommer, its cardinal rule is "Never ask for a private bath with your hotel room"-a stricture that has sent hundreds of thousands of Americans sponging their way through Europe. But the book is deceptive. Its clean family hotels may turn out to be flophouses or cathouses...
...these, 23 will be passenger planes, each capable of carrying up to 490 customers in seats nine or ten abreast split by two aisles; in addition, there will be eight private compartments in a raised section in the forward part of the plane. The remaining two planes ordered by Pan Am will be freighters, with capacities of 214,000 lbs. as against the 76,400-lb. limit of the airline's current Boeing-made cargo aircraft. Scheduled for delivery starting in September 1969, the 747 will cruise at 45,000 ft. at some 625 m.p.h., and will have...
...could be ready in 1970, one year after Boeing begins its deliveries. But Lockheed's facilities are presently committed to fulfilling the Pentagon order for the military transport jet. Douglas Aircraft has designed a DC-10 that is roughly the equivalent of Boeing's 747. Now that Pan Am has ordered its jumbo jet, competitive U.S. airlines such as TWA and United have little choice but to follow suit, and it is possible that Douglas or Lockheed will land a contract from some of them. No matter what happens to Douglas and its DC-10, it has already...
With the SST in the offing, the monster passenger plane such as the 747 is considered by some to be little more than an interim aircraft. Pan American clearly had this in mind when it specified that Boeing construct its 747 planes strong enough to be converted into cargo carriers. Actually, the 747 and the SST will likely complement each other. For passengers who want to fly a long distance in a supersonic hurry, the SST will be available at premium rates; but such will be the low operating costs of the 747 that a customer who is willing...