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To promote this guess into a well-considered theory, Dr. Brown collected information about 107 meteorites (grounded meteors). He reasoned that "all the fragments came from an exploding planet which had a molten core of nickel-iron at about 3,000° Centigrade [5,432° F.] and an internal...
Fire Bug. A joint Government-industry committee put its finger on the cause of fires aboard two Douglas DC-6 planes, which had led U.S. airlines and Douglas Aircraft Co. to ground all DC-6s in service. As expected (TIME, Nov. 24), CAB decided that the gasoline tank vent forward...
Action. Eleven hours after the Gallup fire, American Airlines' Board Chairman Cyrus Rowlett Smith ordered American's 35 DC-6s grounded "until we know" the reason for the fires. Shortly after, United Air Lines' President W. A. Patterson grounded United's 34 DC-6s. President Truman...
Donald W. Douglas, whose Douglas Aircraft Co. had poured $13,400,000 of engineering and research and $1,500,000 of testing into the DC-6, concurred. Until the trouble was found, said Douglas, "all further passenger flying in these airplanes should be discontinued." It was the first time that...
the same period last year, when its Constellations were grounded. The September