News from October 1959

A United DC-8 left New York’s Idlewild Airport on Sept.18 on the first coast-to-coast scheduled flight. It took five hours. Weather delayed the return trip, with UAL President W.A. Patterson aboard, which took six hours. Initial flight of Omega’s first production twin-engine BA-12D took place Sept...

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