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...British, French and German governments got an aircraft-manufacturing consortium together to cash in on the demand. Their early lead disappeared as the partners fell to feuding. They also suffered a rude shock when American Airlines Chairman C. R. Smith allowed as how he would have none of a twin-jet design, considered anything less than three engines in a 300-passenger plane foolhardy for safety reasons...
...mergers and joint efforts, they are getting ready to compete with such U.S. giants as McDonnell Douglas, Boeing and Lockheed. "The Americans would like to have a monopoly on the aircraft industry," says Director van Meerten of Holland's Fokker, which has just test flown its new F28 twin-jet transport, "but we are here to tell them this...
...overwhelming lead: 441 firm orders plus 118 options from 33 airlines. Last week the company turned over the 100th DC-9 from its Long Beach plant to Eastern Air Lines. British Aircraft Corp., which managed to beat U.S. planemakers into the short-haul business, has delivered 85 of its twin-jet BAC One-Elevens, has orders for 67 more (none from U.S. airlines). And competition is growing. Next month The Netherlands expects to start test flights of its 65-passenger Fokker twin-jet F-28. At $2,350,000 per plane, Fokker figures that it can still grab a profitable...
...into commercial jet transports; the DC-8 lagged a year behind Boeing's profit-laden 707?and Douglas has yet to break even on the venture. After Donald Jr., now 49, took over the presidency, the company grossly underestimated both the demand and costs for its 90-plus passenger, twin-jet DC-9. Labor and parts shortages snarled production lines, and as a result Douglas lost at least $600,000 on each DC-9 it delivered last year, ended 1966 some $27 million in the red. That process nearly exhausted the patience of the eight banks that were providing...
...formidable task force, often dedicated to finding and retrieving just one man. High overhead circles the "Crown," a C-130 command plane that coordinates the rescue. Then come four A-l fighters to bomb and strafe any North Vietnamese on the ground around the pilot. Two helicopters, either twin-jet HH-3 "Jolly Greens" or HH-43 "Pedros," move in for the pickup. Each chopper carries a crew of four: pilot, copilot, crew chief (who acts as hoist operator, gunner and mechanical expert), and a para-rescue man expert at parachuting, scuba diving, jungle survival and medical care...