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...rents and landing fees for the bigger planes at newly built jet terminals. Labor bills alone have doubled in the past decade. It costs $30,000 to train a captain for jets, and he now earns an average of $28,000 yearly v. $15,000 on yesterday's piston planes...
More Efficiency, Less Luxury. Airlines are doing their best to cut costs. They have the support of a presidential fact-finding commission in their effort to eliminate the flight engineer from the jet crew, on the ground that the jets already carry three pilots (v. only two for piston craft) and that the simpler engines do not require the attention of a fulltime engineer. (The angered engineers may strike Pan Am this week to dispute the recommendation.) Airlines have also put a new emphasis on efficiency. Continental Air Lines, which makes money, owns only five jets but gets the most...
Walter H. Piston, Walter M. Naumberg Professor of Music, Emeritus, has been awarded his second Pulitzer Prize in the Sold of arts and letters. The award, announced last night, was for his Symphony No. 7, first performed...
...made 79 solo crossings of the Atlantic. Last week, the latter-day Lindbergh landed his Piper Aztec at Miami International Airport after logging a 25,457-mile trip around the world. His time-eight days. 18 hours, 49 minutes-chopped 20 days off the previous record for light piston craft...
...make jet flying safer, the airlines last week put in a new set of crew training rules. They came only after a year of arguing with the Federal Aviation Agency. FAA decided that since the transition from slower piston planes to tricky jets is much more demanding on pilots than a simple move up the ladder from one piston plane to a bigger one, the old training system was not good enough...