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1956 Significant Year For AirlineIndustry; Jet Orders, I op TrafficBv Eddie ttttonbacktr Chalrnu* th* Board• EasieVh Alt* titles Written for tJftitei Press The Airlittfc Industry's $2 billion Order* for . a fleet bf SbWle 400 jfct-poWfcrfed AirUheTs rtft'deimportant hHdlinfcJ lit IdSS. • Even mori significant, hbW-4Vbr/ IS Utfc fact that thO 46 million passengers, who traveled 58 billion fniies by air during the same yehr hhve made the U.S. scheduled Alrliftcs \hc country* primary pttA’gfer leanter, outstripping both thorailroads and the intOh-elty buses. .No realistic estimate of the 'economy of thi industry’s spicily approaching transition LO jet power can be made Without linking these. I Wo fads. Coming Agfc The comirtg “Jet Age'' till! be truly revolutionary, possibly the first real mechanic*! revolution in commercial aVlatlOh history'. Throilgh the use of thOse ftew sbUrce* of IrCmert-do\n jbl pbWpr, the airlines willbe able to bring a much greater and travel-conscious public the superior convenience, com-Tori and economy of almost silent, YlbrationleSs flight, it speeds up to the speed of sovlhditself (about *700 mph), and at fales favorably 'coihparablc-sVlth any other meads of transportation fit* distant^ Of 300 mltfcs or mart... Ob the oth hand, there isUO qtiestiort bttl that thb development of a gvcally increased level ol public* air travel must be made as a sound foundation for the coming of the gi Gat jet airliners, Which will not bnly double OUr present airlih'er speeds, but Wilt triple odr carry ihg capacity.The $422 million re-cqulp-mcnt program Eastern Air Lines has adopted to enable us to do this' job, while the largest undertaken by any airline, is still generally lypical of what the entire industry is doing 1U this regard.Airliners On Order 'Vo care for today's growing vbldme of air travel, the Airlines hiy*s also ordered 365 piston-powered airliners, With 73 ihbrfc in : prospect. Eastern Airlines, for itislaVicc. is Adding new- multi-Go gift Oq radar-equtpped golden lalcbn* anil constellations to Us fleet;The first of 40 jct-prop ElOc-tl-as ire scheduled to go into Service in l$a8. In 1959-60, wheiroUr flcH of 20 great .600-m II c • a it - h o u r, 56,000 • hp, straight-jet airliners equipped to carry 112 to 135 passengers, are in operation, we will have tripled our passenger airlift capacity.^ Any evaluation of airline economy and future growth U)usl alsO coiisldcr the Shipotl-dht facts that, although the airllnfcs havO now become our rni)ntl*y\s primary passenger carters Ahd although the American public it' enjoying, and will cohUmte to enjoy, greater income ahd mofe leisure lirtu than ever before, less than It per cent of the U'avcl-consciou! public ha* yet experienced the SUpeYW convenience, cOmfov ahd economy Of air travel.
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Humboldt Standard
Eureka, California, US
Wed, Dec 26, 1956
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