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Nerve Center. Official headquarters of the Air Research and Development Command is at Baltimore, but the technical nerve center is Wright Air Development Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton. It dates, under various names, back to World War I, and has grown into a massive tangle of intricate equipment. It tests everything from pin-head-size transistors to heavy bombers, loading them with weights or twisting their wings with tension devices. Turbojet engines, ramjets and rocket motors bellow on test stands like prehistoric monsters...
...GRAHAM PATTERSON Publisher Farm Journal Philadelphia...
Actually, Patterson had spent five solid years making sure that a jet order was the right move. United's engineers have been running "paper-jet" flights across the U.S., figuring speed, payload, turn-around time, maintenance costs, etc., to give Patterson the information he needed. He chose Douglas' DC-8 over Boeing's 707 because he feels that it has more room for improvement, the 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...
...financing his new jet fleet, United's Patterson, like Pan American's President Juan Trippe, kept mum. He said only that he was "studying several alternatives and, quite frankly, we don't yet know which one we'll choose." The speculation around the industry is that insurance companies will help the airlines foot the bill. With United's operating revenues at an alltime record and other airlines doing equally well, commercial aviation is in a position to carry the heavy capital debt for new jets. In a pinch, U.S. airlines could even make a strong...
With his order, United's President William A. Patterson sewed up first place in the delivery line over his domestic competitors. He is scheduled to get his first DC-8 in May, 1959, have it in service that November. Thus, United should have DC-8s in the air even before Pan American, which will have to wait until December 1959 for its first plane. The delay is caused by the engines. United's jet liners will have Pratt & Whitney J57 engines (more than 10,000 Ibs. thrust), already in military production. Pan American's planes, which need...