Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than any British aircraft since the ill-starred Comet I, the delta-winged Vulcan bomber has stood as a symbol of Britain's ability to keep abreast of the jet age. One day last week the four-jet, 150,000-lb. Vulcan headed home from a 26,000-mile flight to Australia and back, and R.A.F. officials decided to give it a big welcome at London Airport, where all the world could see and applaud...
...that moment the airport greeters had their first horror-stricken sight of the Vulcan, a monstrous shadow in the mists at the runway's threshold. It was in trouble. Pilot Howard passed the word, "Abandon ship!" He and Sir Harry, in their ejector seats, shot upward from the aircraft, and their parachutes blossomed in the mist. But for the other four members of the crew, whose only exit was through the plane's underside, there was no chance. The Vulcan's nose cut earthward again, and the aircraft skidded along the concrete runway in a trail...
...Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer for advice and was told to accept and keep the Mountie informed. Then, under the illusion that he had been deputized as a counterspy, Staples began chumming around with Popov and other Russians; the conversation eventually drifted around to Staples' work and R.C.A.F. aircraft. His police friend warned him to stop, but Staples continued meeting the Russians. Finally, when Popov gave him $50 (Staples said he gave it back) and spoke about providing him with a camera, government security officers cracked down. Staples was dismissed as a security risk, and an official protest...
...Angus) Lightfoot Walker, 47, was elected president and chief executive officer of Rheem Manufacturing Co., maker of steel containers, heating equipment, military aircraft components, etc. (1955 annual sales: $161 million). "Gus" Walker succeeds Richard S. Rheem, who becomes chairman of the board, is first non-family man to be president. Born in Newport, England, Walker was raised in Australia, got an engineering degree at Sydney University. After two jobs as a sales engineer, he joined Rheem in Australia in 1937. Nine years later he was transferred to New York, became executive assistant to the president, later vice president...
Toward the Unknown (Warner), which attempts to tell the story of the Bell X2, the Air Force's experimental rocket plane, will probably get a rocket boost at the box office from recent headlines. In July the X-2 set a speed record (1,900 m.p.h.) for manned aircraft. Last month it set the altitude record: 126,000 ft. above sea level. Then it crashed in the desert...