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SUNDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1962
MCDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
jet Airliners Surpass Expectations in Success and Problems Created
(Editor's note: America
entered the jet age lour yean
ago next Friday when a Pan
American World Airwayi
Boeing 707 took off for Peril
Oct. 26, 1958. The following
dispatch discusses the
achievements, setbacks and
still-unsolved problems of the
four years that have elepsed
since that flighi.)
By ROBERT J. SERLING
UPI Aviation Editor
- Washington (UPll The jels
have surpassed all expecta
tions not only In their spec
tacular success but in the
problems that success created.
This is the irony of the jet
age's fourth anniversary. Al
most every achievement has
been tempered by eceompany
Ing headaches. The jets liter
ally shrank the world by 40
per cent almost overnight. In
the same breath, they present
ed the airlines with massive
economic problems not only
In their enormous cost but
their immense carrying capa
city, which adds up to supply
exceeding demand.
The cost of the jet age is
best expressed by these
figures:
Most jets originally were
priced about $5 million, In
cluding spare pails. A 1962
Jetliner sells for more than
S6 million.
Invested In Fleets
The major U.S. airlines
have $2.5 billion invested in
their jet fleets, which is 50
per cent more than they had
tied up In their propeller-driven
fleets at the start of the
jet age.
In 1955, a single airliner
seat represented $20,000 in
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properly investment. In 1962,
the investment cost per jet
scat was $46,000.
A piston-engine DC7 or
constellation requires 14
pieces of supporting ground
equipment valued at $42,000.
A jet needs 15 pieces costing
nearly $150,000.
Airport costs have mush
roomed because of the jets.
The New York port author
ity's pre-jct investment at
Idlcwild was $221 million.
Interest Payments
In 1955, slightly more
than a half-cent of every air
line revenue dollar went for
interest payments on new pis
ton equipment. The figure for
the jet age is 3 cents out of
every revenue dollar.
The price tag on spare parts
inventory for a mujor carrier
was $19 million in 1957. It is
now about $50 million for the
average airline.
Balanced against these
astronomical costs, however,
is the productivity of the jet
liner. A single jet can do the
work of three or even four
piston-engine planes. For ex
ample, a DC3 In 19:18 did a
day's work when it flew from
New York to Little Hock,
Ark. A four-engine piston
plane's daily utilization in
volved a New York-Los Ange
les flight. The Jet's minimum
workday covers a round trip
between the east and west
coasts.
Are Money-Makers
This productivity has add
ed up to one prime fact about
jets: Basically, they have been
money-makers although not
to the extent the airlines
hoped. If they were flown
full or nearly full more often,
they would be unbelievably
profitable but their very size
which has led lo excess
capacity keep the black ink
from flowing very heavily.
Even so, the jets are so basi
cally efficient it is possible to I word: Excellent. In four I The three accidents took
make money on jets flown years, there have been only 194 lives, underlining the in
only half-full. i three fatal accidents involv- escapable fact that when a
The U.S. jets' safety record I ing pure jets on scheduled giant jet crashes, the death
can be summed up in one flight, plus a sabotage case, toll can be extremely high.
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NON-STOP FLIGHT This Boeing 707 In
tercontinental jet of El Al Israel Airlines is
reflected in a taxi-way puddle as it takes
off. The jet makes a non-stop flight from
New York to Tel Aviv, Israel, for El Al.
The Jet Age, now upon its fourth year, has
brought increasing investments into airline
operations, but has justified them by in
creased productivity. (UPI)
U3 Billion Feet Of Timber Down On BLM Disfricls
Union Threatens
To Close Mills
Gardiner - lUPH - A spokes
an for (he Plywood, Lum
ber and Sawmill Workers un
ion has stated Hie union
may shut down all Interna
tional Paper Co. operations in
Oregon, Washington and Cali
fornia.
The statement was made by
Don Farrier, business agent
of the Coos Bay area district
of the union. 11 followed
disput which closed down the
firm's plant here last week
Some 250 members of Local
2195 of the union left (he
job here and put up picket
lines. About 400 other em
ployees were affected.
Farrier said the walkout
was brought on by an over
time dispute and the suspen
sion of two workers, lie said
there were no negotiations
scheduled with management.
Portland Approximately
1.23 billion board feet of tim
ber was blown down on lands
managed by the bureau of
land management in Oregon
and Washington during the
Confessed Soviet
Killer Sentenced
Karsruhc, Germany - HOT -
The West German Supreme
Court Friday sentenced con
fessed Soviet agent Bogdan
Stashinskiy to eight years at
hard labor fur killing two
Ukrainian exiles in Munich
on orders from the Kremlin.
Stashinskiy, 31. was con-
viclcd of using a bizarre cy
anide poison spray gun to
slay his victims instantly with
hardly a trace.
The victims were Prof. Lev
Rebel and Ukrainian national
ist leader Stefan Bandera.
Stashinskiy said he killed Re
bel in ll).')7 and Bandera in
1959 on orders of the Soviet
Ministry of Stale Security.
The prosecution had asked
for a double life sentence, one
for each murder. West Ger
many does not have the death
penalty.
Stashinskiy also was found
guilty of spying for the So
viet Union.
recent high winds, BLM of
ficials have estimated.
The Mcdford district esti
mated 15 million board feet
and had the second smallest
amount of reported damage.
Smallest was 1 million board
feet in eastern Oregon.
Largest was 330 million board
feet In the Eugene district.
Other damage estimates
were 170 million board feel
in the Roseburg district, 240
million board feet in the Coos
Bay district, 330 million board
feet in the Eugene district,
240 million board feet in the
Bids Called for
Water System Work
Bids for a water system for
the Aspen Point campground
al the Lake of the Woods,
will be opened Nov. 9, at 2
p.m. in the regional forester's
office in Portland.
The planned water system
is the next step of develop
ment of the campground, ac
cording to Asa Twonibly,
Klamath district ranger, Wi
nema national forest.
The Aspen point camp is
located on the east side of
the Lake of the Woods be
tween the resort and the air
strip.
Salem district and 27 million
board feet in the western Ore
gon district.
"Presence of clouds and fog
and the remaining summer
foliage prevented completely
accurate mapping of the blow
down areas," Travis M. Tyr
rell, chief of BLM's division
of range and forest manage
ment for Oregon and Wash
ington, said.
"More systematic surveys,
both ground and air, will be
necessary to secure accurate
data on which to build salvage
plans," he said.
The estimates were based
on aerial surveys and limited
ground checks.
Yet despite these fatalities,
the jet fatality rate since Oct.
26, 1958, has been only 0.41
deaths per 100 million passen
ger miles flown, compared
with a rate of 0.58 for pro
peller-driven planes.
As of mid-1962, U.S. air
lines were operating about
340 pure jets. By 1965, the jet
fleet in this country alone
will total nearly 500. The na
tion's carriers still have about
1,200 piston-engine planes in
The airlines and their crews j service plus about 260 prop-
deserve praise for that safety jets. The most startling slatis
record. The achievement was tic of the jet age is that while
no accident. The airlines have 1 only one out of six airliners
made mistakes in the jet age,
but the one department in
which their performance can
be rated as superb is training.
A jet pilot flics his monster
"by the book" and it is the
uncompromising observance
of the rule which make the
jets inherently safer to fly.
If there is any pilot criti
cism of Jets as far as safety
is concerned, it is directed at
airports. The Air Line Pilots
association has said most jet
operational problems involve
inadequate airports.
is a pure jet, the jets are
carrying seven out of every
10 passengers.
Creates New Problem
The jet influx naturally
dumped hundreds of sudden
ly outmoded piston planes on
the market, creating a new
problem for the industry. For
the first time in aviation his
tory, a new airliner rendered
its predecessors obsolete over
night. According to Curtis Barkes,
united vice president for fi
nance, the domestic airlines
Rogue Valley Landlords
Association Is Formed
The Rogue Valley Land
lords association was organ
ized recently by landlords in
the Ashland and Mcdford
areas at a meeting at the Ash
land Public library.
The purpose of the group
will be to acquaint landlords
with legal aspects of land
lords and guests, equalization
of tax to rental ratios, joint
purchases of furnishings, re
sponsibility of guests to land
lords and other problems re
lating to the rental industry.
The first meeting of the
group will be at 7 p.m. Nov.
8 in the basement of the Ash
land library. E. Roy Bashaw,
Medford lawyer, who is a for
mer city attorney and Jack
son county district judge, will
speak on "Legal Aspects of
Problems of the Landlord."
Discuss Oregon Law
He will discuss the Oregon
law regarding the landlord's
legal rights with relation to
the guests. A question and
answer period will follow 'the
talk.
Members may submit ques
tions by mail prior lo the
meeting by sending them to
David Curtis, box 721, Ash
land, or Mrs. Mark E. Boyden,
2541 Sandy Terrace, Mcdford.
Elected to the board of di
rectors were Mrs. Phil Bryant,
Curtis, Arvil Hurt, Herb Lew
is, Lawton T. Lewis, Willard
Richards, John H. Schocne
wald, and Charles A. Van
Walker, all Ashland; and Mrs.
Florence O. Bailey, Jack L.
Bailey, Mrs. Boyden and Ver
non V. Rasmussen, all Med
ford. Mrs. Boyden was elected
chairman.
Annual Achievement
Night for 4-H Set
The annual 4-H Achieve
ment night for Medford will
be held Monday, Oct. 22, at
7:30 p.m. at the 4-H audi
torium at the fairgrounds.
Drick Payne of the Med
ford branch, First National
Bank of Oregon, will present
the awards provided by the
Oregon Bankers association
All 4-H'ers, their parents
and interested persons are in
vited to attend.
since World War II have sold
between 750 and 1.000 planes
for more than $200 million.
But there still are about 350
piston-engine airline trans
ports available for sale, today,
and by 1970, when the air
lines will have completed
most of their jet purchases,
the market will be gutted
with aircraft.
One of the byproducts of
the jet age has been the
steadily increasing trend to
ward coach travel, more on
the jets than older planes.
TWA, for example, started op
erating its jets originally
with a cabin configuration
one third first class and two
thirds coach. Its configuration
today on a 140-passenger jet
is only 20 first class seats and
120 coach seats.
Next Stage Anticipated
Economically, some experts
think the next stage of the
jet age will be a shift to a
single-class travel at fares
ranging somewhere between
present first class and coach
tariffs. There is general agree
ment that coach fares are
priced too low, considering
the jet investment and opera
tional costs, while first class
tariffs may be priced too high
for the demand.
The first four years of the
jet age also spawned an un
wanted child the noise
problem.
The industry, along with
the Federal Aviation agency,
has tried valiently to keep
the jets in the air while
keeping protests down. To a
certain extent, they have suc
ceeded although there un
doubtedly is a residue of re
sentment in many cities.
Will Remain Unsolved
The blunt truth is that no
body has figured out a way
to lower the noise level of
the turbine engine. Until a
scientific breakthrough can be
achieved, the noise problem
will remain unsolved. The
i' -lines and the FAA have
compromised as much as they
can and still stay within a
margin of safe operations
with special noise abatement
procedures.
The carriers have done a
magnificent job in the sur
prisingly smooth transition to
the jet age. The supersonic
transport of the 1970 s will
bring fresh design, manufac.
turing, operation and finan.
cial problems before the air.
lines really have licked all
the problems of the subsonic
jet age.
As of now, however, U.S.
aviation would settle for the
same amount of progress in
the first four years of the su
personic airliner that has
been achieved in the first
four years of the jet age.
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