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...picture of the people. Pilots on flights into Biafra carry canned hams and salt to give to the unloaders as an incentive for faster work. On one of his flight, a bag of salt burst; the Biafrans fought each other to lick the spilled salt off the runway, he says...
Neatly lettered in yellow across a new airstrip that opened last week at New York's La Guardia Airport gleams the word STOL, an acronym for short takeoff and landing. La Guardia's STOLPORT, as the 1,095-ft. runway has already been dubbed, is first of its kind in the U.S. to offer commercial airplanes those desirable qualities...
...among expected visitors will be the McDonnell Douglas 188, a stubby, banana-shaped ship with outsized wings. Beginning next month, it will touch down at La Guardia's STOL runway between hops to landing strips set aside in Boston and Washington for extensive testing in the crowded northeast air corridor...
...enter the U.S. air-taxi/commuter business, like Canada's De Havilland Otter and the Helio Courier, have only a fraction of McDonnell Douglas' payload. Fully loaded, the plane can cruise at 250 m.p.h., land at speeds as slow as 55 m.p.h. on a 500-ft. runway; it can take off within 1,000 ft. (one-seventh the length of La Guardia's shortest shuttle runway...
...picture of the people. Pilots on flights into Biafra carry canned hams and salt to give to the unloaders as an incentive for faster work. On one of his flights, a bag of salt burst; the Biafrans fought each other to lick the spillen salt off the runway, he says...