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...decades a symbol of U.S. world supremacy in commercial aviation, made a low bow to foreign competition last week, and by so doing put itself in position to pick up a pretty penny. In Manhattan, President Donald Douglas Jr. announced that it was joining with France's Sud-Aviation to sell Sud's up-to-80-passenger, 500 m.p.h., twin-jet Caravelle airliner in world markets. Douglas got exclusive sales rights in the U.S. and Latin America, plus parts of Asia and Africa. At first, all planes will be built in France, but when Douglas orders...
Douglas production may not be long acoming. Hardly was the news on the tickers when the Caravelle made its first big U.S. breakthrough. In Denver, United Airlines announced a $60 million order to Sud for 20 Caravelles (with an option for 20 more), the first time that United has bought anything but U.S. planes. Another Caravelle has been sold in the U.S. to Jet-Engine Builder General Electric Co., which will use the plane as a flying showroom for its new CJ-805-23 aft-fan engine, which delivers more thrust for lower fuel consumption than standard jet engines...
FRENCH JETLINER ORDERS are being considered by United Air Lines for the mediumrange, twin-engine Caravelle. United has conducted preliminary negotiations with Caravelle builder, France's Sud Aviation...
...Lear also would like to crack the market for instruments used on the big airliners. His autopilot, other instruments and fuel pumps are used on the Air Force's KC-135 tanker-transport (the military version of the Boeing 707); Lear instruments are also used on the French Sud Aviation Caravelle jet airliners, but so far major U.S. commercial lines have hesitated to buy. Their reasons are that Lear's record for quality control, service and stocking spare parts has fallen short of the ingenuity of his inventions. Said one major airline executive last week...
...enough orders. On its American debut the Morane-Saulnier craft flew Ambassador to the U.S. Maurice de Murville from Washington to New York in 35 minutes, setting a civil aviation record In pure research, France's large Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest (S.N.C.A.S.O.) is flying its Trident, a jet-and-rocket-powered interceptor, at supersonic speeds, while the tiny (400 workers) Leduc Co. has built an even more radical fighter with a needlelike plastic cockpit and a 143,000-lb.-thrust (at 621 m.p.h.) ramjet engine. Carried aloft on the back...