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...travel, once a luxury for the few, has become part of the very fabric of modern living. If this was not clearly apparent in the past, the airline strike brought the truth home. This week's cover story focuses on newly thriving TWA and its president, Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., but the subject is the entire industry and its rather fantastic prospects beyond the immediate problem of the strike...
Distinctly more airborne was Jerry Hannifin, who has been our aviation specialist in Washington for ten years. Owner of a two-seater Air Coupe, he is a weekend flyer, estimates that in 30 years as pilot and passenger he has clocked 800,000 miles. Hannifin spent days with Tillinghast and his top aides in New York and examined the airline's overhaul and maintenance headquarters in Kansas City. He also visited TWA's training center, where he was checked out in the simulator of Boeing's new 707-331. "They cranked in some turbulence," recalls Hannifin...
Hannifin would have even more trouble trying to fly the Hurdybird in the background of the cover. It is the artist's stylized conception of the next generation of aircraft-the 1,800-m.p.h. SST. Peter Hurd painted Tillinghast from life but he painted the plane of the future largely from his own imagination...
...five airlines were struck: TWA, United, Eastern, Northwest and National. Of all their operating heads, none had more at stake than TWA President Charles Tillinghast Jr., 55, who has been in the airline business just over five years but in that time has helped turn TWA from a floundering giant into one of the industry's highest flyers. The strike caught Tillinghast not only near the crest of TWA's comeback but also at a time when the line must fly if it is to prosper. TWA's income is greatly concentrated in the summer along...
...Still Tillinghast's individual and corporate problems were dwarfed by the real lesson of the strike-which was a dramatic demonstration of just how much jet transportation has come to mean...