Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British aircraft carrier stood at the ready, and a supply fleet of 130,000 tons waited off Southampton to load equipment for the Middle East. Britain's Anthony Eden seemed confronted with the choice of making good on his assiduous saber-rattling or accepting a humiliating backdown. "Will there be war over Suez?" was the question on British minds last week as the Prime Minister stepped to the dispatch box in the House of Commons and faced an aroused Labor Party, vociferously vowing to pluck him bodily from the brink...
...nation's crowded airways, 254 commercial and private planes collided in flight between 1948 and 1955, and there is an average of four near misses a day. After last June's collision of two commercial aircraft over the Grand Canyon took 128 lives (TIME, July 9), the search for a warning device to prevent such disasters in the future became a major concern of U.S. airlines. Last week the airlines finally thought they had found what they wanted. The Air Transport Association approved a collision alarm system blueprinted by Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a company...
...leaders were aircraft companies and steel. On the New York Stock Exchange, U.S. Steel, Jones & Laughlin, Republic Steel, Crucible Steel and Allegheny Ludlum sold at new highs as mills pushed up to 98% of capacity and the backlog of steel orders assured peak operations for months to come...
...deafening jets and daring acrobatics, Britain's annual aircraft show at Farnborough last week had precious little new to show in the way of aircraft. Most of the planes were familar subsonic models, or experimental craft such as Fairey's supersonic Delta, current official speed-record holder (at 1,132 m.p.h.). But while all eyes turned skyward, most of the real stars of Farnborough sat silent in ground exhibits. They were Britain's new aircraft engines. Observed London's Economist: "There are more really good engines in Britain today than there are aircraft for them...
...good as it looks, Convair is in line for a whopping big order and a pat on the back. Where most U.S. planemakers just build the air frame, then fit on whatever armament, radar, etc. that the Air Force orders, Convair's B58 is the first U.S. aircraft to be built under the new "weapons-system" concept, where the prime contractor is responsible for everything (except engines). On a plane as complex as the Hustler, the new system can save as much as three years in development time...