Word: twa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fair. In Kansas City, TWA Executive Otis Frank Bryan reported that over the Atlantic a TWA plane got a radio call from a German submarine commander who complained, correctly, that the plane was using the wrong code for that...
Aviation dopesters believe that CAB is about to break its application log jam so that civilian air transport can get off to a fast start after the war. One tip came last week, when CAB permitted three airlines (United, TWA and Eastern) to establish new routes to Washington as soon as the Army would let them have some more planes. But for land operators like Keeshin, the going may be tougher: during its five years of existence CAB has not allowed other common carriers to own any airlines...
...rest of the staff (except for the personnel and administrative boss, Colonel James H. Douglas, Chicago lawyer) George went to the airlines again. Chief of operations is TWA's Larry Fritz (who flew one of the freighters to India last week); chief of domestic transportation and training, Colonel Harold R. Harris, who had organized Pan American Grace (Panagra); United Airlines' Colonel Ray Ireland, chief of priority traffic; Northwest Airlines' Colonel George Gardner, foreign operations; Pan American's Colonel Grant Mason, chief of plans; American Airlines' Lieut. Colonel James G. Flynn, communications...
...Connie" was built to be a world traveler (on specifications laid down by TWA before the war). Her Wright engines packed more than 8,000 h.p.-how much more the Army would not allow Lockheed to say. Her engineers had built her to span the continent in one hop of eight hours. With a full passenger load (52) she can outspeed a Zero. With any kind of load, she has an astonishing economy of operation: one gallon of fuel to the mile...
...London, Chungking. U.S. ocean air freight began with a bang last January when the Army requisitioned TWA's five 22½-ton Boeing Stratoliners. Scores of 12½ton Douglas DC-3 airline transports were drafted from the airlines, sent around the nation, to Alaska, Britain, Greenland, Africa, China. Airline crews who knew the art of distance-flying were drafted...