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...Navy and the Marine Corps intend to buy 1,366 of the twin-engined supersonic planes by 1990; the contract price for 1983 is $22.5 million per plane. Known as the Hornet, the aircraft has been approved by the Navy in its fighter role, but it has not yet been accepted as suitable for bombing runs off carriers. Tests disclosed that it cannot, as promised, fly fully loaded off a carrier, reach targets 630 miles away and return without refueling. But production has been proceeding apace at the McDonnell Douglas Corp...
Right now, the trunks are keeping Boeing busy filling orders for its new wide-bodied 767. Boeing has sold 177 of the $46 million, twin-engine planes so far, and will produce five a month this year, which will keep the assembly line moving efficiently until business picks up enough to allow the industry to buy more. United Air Lines, the first carrier to fly the 767, has taken out newspaper ads proclaiming: "If you had a favorite airplane, this one's going to take its place...
Boeing is also beginning to profit from the industry's twin problems of overcapacity in big airliners (as many as 100 747s, DC-10s and L-1011s are grounded because they cannot be filled), and the fare wars sparked by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. While the trunks have been slugging it out in expensive discounting duels for a shrinking number of passengers on such popular routes as New York-Los Angeles and Miami-Chicago, small regional airlines, known in the industry as "bumblebees," have been making fat profits serving medium-size cities abandoned by the major carriers...
When passenger traffic picks up, Boeing will be ready with its newest twin-engine plane: the 757. Certified just last month, the $37 million airliner carries 185 passengers. So far, 123 of these smaller planes have been ordered. Boeing's Wilson sees the 757 as the company's strongest card in the long run, because it is intended to replace the middle-size, medium-range jets that make up some 72% of the U.S. airline fleet. Says he: "I would not be surprised to see the 757 as the best seller we have ever...
...really love him. She loves making love, and so she exercises her power in one of the few ways open to a woman in 1920s Germany: by becoming an entrepreneur of lust. Promiscuous as a prancing stud, possessive as any hausfrau, Hanni drives "Fatty" Bolwieser to the twin dominatrices of drink and despair. Called to court, the cuckold testifies to his wife's fidelity while she dallies with two of the village's men on the make. Logically enough, the court later throws Bolwieser in jail-four years, for perjury-and Hanni, the modern woman tired...