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Premiere Issue Articles
1987
• Airports In The Year 2000: A Place To Land, Or ‘And Now There Are None’ A opinion piece written by former City Councilmember Marc Wilder, who was also a member of the executive committee of the Southern California Association of Governments
• Reaching Out To The Community: McDonnell Douglas Employees Do More Than ‘Just Build Airplanes” A Herb Shannon-written article about how 42 volunteers from the McDonnell Douglas Community Help and Improvement Program helped renovate a dilapidated Signal Hill bungalow for use as a child care center
• Pioneering ‘Prop-Fan’ Technology For Next Generation Of Jetliners A story written by Lee Craig about United Technology’s Hamilton Standard Division at the Long Beach Airport
• Aircraft Simulators Subject Pilot To All The Motions Of Flight Another Lee Craig article about Flight Safety International at the Long Beach Airport
• Aviation History: What Ever Happened To Daugherty Field? The first in a 10-part series on local aviation history written by Phil Lockwood
The First Advertisers The following companies supported the premiere issue: Airserv; Alaska Airlines; Jet America; Harbor Bank; Hotel Queen Mary; Island Marketing Avalon; Kilroy Airport Center Long Beach; McDonnell Douglas; Paging California; Pawson’s Flowers; PSA; Queen City Bank; and United Airlines.
Other First-Year Stories • Flight Attendant Training Emphasizes Humor, Good Service And Attitude • Atlantic Aviation: Providing First Class Service For Corporate Customers • LifeFlight: When Life Hangs In The Balance • DC-2 Restored To Flight Status By Douglas Volunteers • Long Beach Airport Marriott: The Much-Needed, Full-Service, 311-Room Hotel Opens For Business • Take-out Orders – Marriott In-Flite Services Provides 9,000 Meals A Week To Local Airlines • Catalina Flying Boats Inaugurates Passenger Service To Avalon • Alaska Airlines – Special Emphasis On Service A Major Reason For Success • New, Upscale Kilroy Business Park Opens; Adds Magic To Airport Area • Delta Air Lines Inaugurates Long Beach Service • LA Helicopter Provides Regular Service To LAX • The Right Stuff Man, Chuck Yeager • Farewell Jet America • Long Beach To Baja On Sun Pacific Airlines • Cessna Southwest Service Center: ‘We’re Still In An Evolutionary Stage’ • Airport Noise Levels Down; Pilot Cooperation Up • Hart Air Squadron Training Includes Aerobatic Instruction • Year 2000: Air Traffic Growth Will Support High-Speed Transports • Ticket Counter Musical Chairs • Aviation Community Reviewing Proposed Increase In Rates And Fees • Douglas – Employment Impact Reaches Far Beyond Long Beach Airport Area
Congratulations to the Long Beach Business Journal on their 25 year anniversary! Petrie Financial Group Lisa Petrie, CFP® Senior Vice President–Investments Senior Portfolio Manager UBS Financial Services Inc. 301 E. Ocean Blvd, Suite 1600 Long Beach, CA 90802 562-495-5522 lisa.petrie@ubs.com
Major Employers In Long Beach 1987 McDonnell Douglas 25,000 Long Beach Naval Shipyard (civilian) 7,000 City of Long Beach 4,550 California State University, Long Beach 4,200 Veterans Hospital 4,000 Hughes Aircraft Company 3,900 Memorial Medical Center 3,500 General Telephone Company 2,300 St. Mary Medical Center 2,000 U.S. Navy (military) 1,500 Long Beach City College 1,400 Grayson Controls 1,400 Wrather Port Properties 1,200 Source: City of Long Beach
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