AVIATION: Jets: U.S. Orders
American Airlines, biggest U.S. domestic line, last week signed up in the jet race. It ordered 30 Boeing 707s costing $135 million. National Airlines (New York to Miami) also committed itself to buy jets. It ordered six DC-8s from Douglas for $36 million. American will start receiving its 575-m.p.h. (up to 125 passenger) planes in March 1959, two months before any other domestic line gets any jets, and plans to be the first to put them into operation between New York and Los Angeles. Target date: June15, 1959.
Most Popular »
- The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting
- Prehistoric Super-Crocodiles May Have Dined on Dinosaurs
- Woman Loses Benefits over Facebook Photo
- Amid Concern About India's Lost Clout, Singh Goes to Washington
- Toilets
- The Fall of Greg Craig, Obama's Top Lawyer
- Will Private Equity Be the Next Meltdown?
- Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin
- The Political Fallout of Egypt's Soccer War
- Can the A380 Bring the Party Back to the Skies?
- The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting
- Will Private Equity Be the Next Meltdown?
- Prehistoric Super-Crocodiles May Have Dined on Dinosaurs
- Toilets
- Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin
- Can the A380 Bring the Party Back to the Skies?
- Troubling Rise of Facebook's Top Game Company
- The Fall of Greg Craig, Obama's Top Lawyer
- Female Sexual Dysfunction: Myth or Malady?
- How One Army Town Copes With Post- Traumatic Stress
Quotes of the Day »
ROLF-DIETER HEUER, CERN's director general, on the Large Hadron Collider smashing proton beams together for the first time
Quotes of the Day »
ROLF-DIETER HEUER, CERN's director general, on the Large Hadron Collider smashing proton beams together for the first time
RSS