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f Tuesday. March 6. 1962—A-1( liildrni (leiVirliirer la(reamHITIn Truck MishapSetsRecordsMIAMI VPP — A new version of the DCS set passenger plane pushed back the calendar and the clock recently in setting ‘non stop flight record for con mercial planes of 8.705 milenA bsg series 50 Dougla* Aircraft Corp plane took off fromTokvo, Japan at 5 13 p.m.,Tokvo time It landed at 5:05 pm lESTi rn Miami, still on the same dav because it cross ed the International Date Line in the Pacific OceanHOUSTON, Tex, TTPT — A truck turned over three timesrecently, scattering thousandsOi ice cream cones along a 100-\errl stretch of the Gull Free-wwav.i he truck blocked the southbound lanes of the freeway. Scores of children tumbled from cars caught in the trafficiam to help themselves to icecream.Driver Richard Molina, 23,oho was not hurt nicked up one of the cones ana licked atit while he talked to investigating officersPOPULATION BOOMActually, the flight of the“Pacific Pacer” required 13 hours and 52 minutes, an aver age of 623 miles an hour. TopNEW YORK m ~ Population of the United States is expected to grow bv 33 million people in the next decade, ac-speed of the plane, powered bv cording to Allied Chemicalfour advanced Pratt Whitneyfan-let engines, Max 790 mph It uas clocked at that speed lust west of Midwav Island bythe U, S. Weather ship Victor’s radar as the plane flew at an altitude of 41,000 feetTHE PLANEwular passenger service next month.Corp.The company said this is likeadding a lt;ih the size of Toledo, Ohio or Rochester, N, Y* “everv two months.”315,000go into reg-i recordpoundspa v loadincluding aof 40900The previous non-stop distance record for commercial planes was set bv an Air France Boeing 707 last month in a 7,023-mile flight from Seattle. Wash., to Beirut.The new DCS also set tM*o other records m its maiden flight to Tokyo, one for payloadand one for speed. It fleM* toTokvo with a record weight ofpounds and spanned the distance between Seattle and Tokyo In 10 hours The previoustime record for the Seattle-Tok-yo flight wa$ 10 hours and 41 minutes.Fly mg to Miami, the piano left Tokyo with 155.000 pounds of fuel and took the “great circle” route over Midwav, Hono lulu, Los Angeles, El Paso, Houston, and St. Petersburg, Fla.jT g
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Nampa Idaho Free Press
Nampa, Idaho, US
Tue, Mar 06, 1962
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