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...plane will be able to fly nonstop across the continent in less than five hours, or from New York to London in less than seven hours. First test flight is scheduled for next week...
...transcontinental airline business, a magic, dollar-bearing word has cropped up in the last few months. The word: nonstop. Roaring eastward with a howling tail wind last week, a new Douglas DC-7 belonging to American Airlines hit top speeds of 480 m.p.h., made it from Los Angeles to New York in a single 6-hr.-10-min. jump, for a new commercial speed record. While American was hanging up its record, United Air Lines impatiently took delivery of its first DC-7 so that it, too, could get into the transcontinental race. At stake is the coast-to-coast...
What touched it off was the DC-7 that American introduced last November -the first plane scheduled to fly both ways nonstop from Los Angeles to New York. American's advertised schedules of 7 hrs. 15 min. nonstop from Los Angeles, and 8 hrs. 40 min. one-stop from San Francisco, were anywhere from 40 min. to 2 hrs. 45 min. faster than competing airlines. Result: large chunks of United's and T.W.A.'s blue-ribbon business have flown off in American...
Connie on the Dot. The airlines are keeping a close watch on competitors' performance. T.W.A., which already has one nonstop eastbound run in its Constellations, sniffs that American's schedules are just paper performance. Eastbound, says T.W.A., the new planes are late 40% of the time. Westbound, the DC-7s do even worse, take up to twelve hours, because of headwinds. Temporarily, American has been getting exemptions from the CAA rule against flight crews staying on the job for longer than eight hours at a stretch. But last week CAA itself was checking arrival times...
...lives up to the engineering estimates. Bill Allen should win his gamble. The big plane will carry from 80 to 130 passengers at 550 m.p.h., will be able to fly nonstop from New York to London in less than seven hours, Los Angeles to New York in less than five. The 707, say Boeing's engineers, will also be able to operate successfully over almost any medium-range route now flown by airlines. It has a low enough landing speed (105 m.p.h.) to get into any big city airport, a high-enough operating efficiency to carry passengers profitably even...