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Beneath starlit skies in perfect flying weather, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 poised for takeoff at New York's Kennedy Airport. Aboard the four-motor DC-7B-a piston-driven model that Eastern is phasing out-were 79 passengers and a crew of five. Airport, control-tower operators routinely told the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center on Long Island that Flight 663 was about to execute a "Dutch Seven Departure," a takeoff pattern designed to avoid New York City by making a series of turns over the Atlantic before the plane headed toward Richmond and points south...
...vertically, three to four miles laterally, a safe distance on anybody's scope. Yet distances can be deceptive in the air, and the investigators recognized the possibility that Carson might have swung his ship into a fatal fall because he believed a mid-air crash was imminent. The piston-driven plane was not equipped with the all but indestructible flight recorder, which indicates every yaw, pitch and twitch of the controls on U.S. jet airliners, and which probably would bear evidence of the cause of such an accident. No matter what the ocean bottom yields, the cause of Flight...
...wing span 8 ft. less than the ancient DC-3. It can carry from 56 to 90 passengers, depending on the seating arrangement, and can fly at speeds of 560 m.p.h. More important, it can land and take off at nearly any commercial airport now serviced by ordinary piston planes. The advent of the DC-9 and other short-haul jets will bring the jet age within the reach of nearly every run and runway. The new planes will gradually replace the old piston and turboprop jets on runs of up to 1,000 miles, which now account for more...
...native of Cleveland, was trained as a French horn player, and has a music degree from Allegheny College. His wife and nine-month-old daughter are traveling with him on the tour. Bachelor Addiss, a dark and more intense counterpart to Crofut, studied composition at Harvard under Composer Walter Piston, has written one opera and is at work on a second. Born in New York City, he was teaching at Mannes College of Music and editing a music magazine when he decided to strike out with Crofut...
...faded. In towns where Keating drew only 25 people, the former U.S. Attorney General pulled 2,000. In Buffalo, 100,000 turned out. Many were squealing teen-agers-but there were also throngs of voting-age women. In the background, a smooth, tough Kennedy machine worked like a greased piston. And the Johnson coattail helped. In upstate New York, where Republicans normally outvote Democrats two-to-one, Kennedy won half the votes and robbed Keating of a crucial 700,000-vote cushion he had counted on. Then in metropolitan Manhattan, Kennedy drop-hammered Keating with a 500,000 vote margin...