Word: twa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TWA Moneyman Howard Hughes and TWA President Jack Frye collaborated on the original plans. They intended to keep the plane a dark secret. Her costs were not even entered on TWA books; Moneyman Hughes financed her privately...
Built to make nonstop, coast-to-coast flights for TWA, the Constellation has a range of 4,000 miles, can carry 57 passengers and a crew of seven. Her four 2,500-h.p. motors can boost her along at 283 m.p.h. cruising speed (100 m.p.h. faster than present transports), can rev it up to 350 m.p.h. The Constellation will be able to streak across the continent in eight and a half hours (four and a half hours faster than TWA's fastest...
...TWA expects to take over its first $500,000 Constellation this June. When Constellations begin to roll off the Lockheed line, TWA hopes to get 40, Pan American 40. But the Army needs transports; and these will be the best transports going. The Army may not snatch the planes outright, may ask the airlines to operate them as air-cruising taxis for troops. TWA President Frye claims that 40 Constellations could transport 16,000 troops to Alaska in 26 hours, 7,500 troops to Hawaii in 48, make a round trip from Boston to Bristol, England...
When his plane came down at Burbank, it landed beside the great Lockheed and Vega plants that cover nearly 400 acres. Hundreds of war planes, complete and incomplete, stood in the fields outside the guarded buildings. TWA's stratoliner roared off with him toward the darkening east, above the clouds, over the Painted Desert, past the San Francisco Mountains, whose highest peak rises higher than sacred Fujiyama. When the plane came down at Albuquerque (on another huge new Army air field) Saburo Kurusu had already flown in the U.S. farther than from Shanghai to Chungking. And he was less...
Southwest's President Leland Hayward, cinema agent, TWA director and husband of twinkling Margaret Sullavan, gave each man a silver wrist tag. Stockholder Brian Aherne flew in in his Fairchild to see the fun. Stockholder Hoagie Carmichael thumped the piano in the canteen...