Word: transporters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fears of MIG & Sam. Well aware of the Marines' dependence on air support, the North Vietnamese are doing everything they can to make the skies over Khe Sanh unsafe. So far, they have managed to destroy only one American C-130 transport and temporarily disable another, but they keep the airstrip under constant fire whenever a plane lands. They are also adding 37-mm. flak to the hundreds of machine guns that already ring the Marine base. U.S. flyers even fear that SAMS and MIGS may soon be used around Khe Sanh; in fact, B-52s are now escorted...
Engines Running. The transport pilots take enormous risks to bring supplies into Khe Sanh. The base sits in a valley that is at present enveloped almost constantly by a thick mist that will not lift until the monsoon ends in early April. Pilots must feel their way in for landings with a ceiling of less than 100 ft.-even though Air Force standards call for a minimum of 300 ft. In addition to the mist, they must make their letdown through turbulent air and a tail wind, cope with a sudden updraft before touchdown and land on a runway that...
...Round-trip airline fares to the U.S. from Europe and possibly the Middle East would be cut by 25%. Prime movers behind such reductions include both U.S. transatlantic carriers, Trans World Airlines and Pan American World Airways. Though details still have to be worked out by the International Air Transport Association and approved by foreign airlines and governments, the lower fares could be implemented as early as mid-April...
Almost from the start, the U.S. effort to build a supersonic jet transport has been buffeted by technical, financial and political turbulence. The resulting delays have already set back development of the plane by at least a year. Last week the Johnson Administration let it be known that the SST faces a further slowdown, which will keep it from entering airline service at least until 1976 or '77, instead of 1974, as originally planned...
When the Flying Tigers' boss, General Claire Chennault, domesticated some war-weary military transports and U.S. fighter pilots following World War II, hardly anyone expected the ragtag operation to last for long. In fact, his CAT (for Civil Air Transport) blossomed into one of the best-run airlines in all of Asia, flying out of Taipei around the Communist perimeter from Seoul to Bangkok. But now, CAT's string seems to have...