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...after a 24-year career at National Airlines, during which time he rose from a $50-a-month plane washer and apprentice mechanic to vice president for operations, engineering and maintenance. At Frontier, he has got rid of most of its piston-engine planes in favor of 21 propjet Convair 580s and five Boeing tri-jet 727s. "We are lean and hungry," says Dymond, "but we have a 'go' attitude. That made National Airlines and it is making Frontier...
...F228 flies in the prop wash of Fairchild Killer's ubiquitous C-119 Flying Boxcars and C-123 transports. Financially troubled during the late 1950s after these contracts ended, the company flew low for a few years, picked up altitude with orders for its F-27 and F227 propjet airliners and for helicopters. In September 1965, Fairchild Hiller acquired Republic Aviation Corp., suffering at the time from production phase-outs of the F-105 fighter-bomber, and subsisting on F-105 modification orders and subcontracts from other aerospace companies...
Like Whales. Unlike Eastern's Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, his longtime competition, Woolman skipped propjet airplanes and waited for the pure jets to arrive. When they did, he refused to float convertible debentures to finance them, instead used Delta's retained earnings and some modest bank loans. He also ordered a conservative ten-year depreciation schedule instead of the twelve to 16 years that most airlines use. Woolman took the advent of newer, faster, larger airplanes in stride. "I remember when I thought the DC-3 was the biggest plane I'd ever see," he would say. "They...
...Canadian National's reckoning, on a downtown-to-downtown basis the turbotrains should approach the time-including traveling to and from airports-that the Montreal-Toronto trip takes by propjet Viscount. In fact, the ride will be somewhat similar: passengers will hear a faint engine whine, get free airline-style meals, sit in aluminum coaches slightly pressurized to keep out dust and dampen track noise. A pendular suspension system tilts the car inward on curves, thus eliminating the lurches of ordinary trains and enabling the train to hit 110 m.p.h. on existing tracks, and eventually 160 m.p.h. on improved...
...priced higher than they ought to be. Second, the report states that the higher prices are a result of flying to the Continent, but the charge was that no matter where you go, the HSA fares are too high. Third, the report claims that the termination of BOAC propjet service forced a switch to jets, but again it does not explain why the prices are apparently out of line. In the whole section defending prices, there was not a single figure to back up the report's position, a notable omisson in a "full discussion" of such a matter...