Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane fly itself. It did, making minor corrections for each gust of air. It rose to 21,000 ft. to traverse the Rockies, stayed on course through a 100-m.p.h. wind shift over Nevada. Finally, 13 hours and 2,520 miles from Bedford, the pilot took over, took the aircraft the remaining ten miles to Los Angeles International Airport. To the jubilant M.I.T. scientists aboard the plane, he lamented: "I've just lost...
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 22--President Eisenhower, planning important disarmament conference with Harold Stassen tomorrow, arranged today to observe maneuvers aboard a mighty warship--the new 60,000-ton aircraft carrier Saratoga...
Bigger Copter. Vertol Aircraft Corp. unveiled its new commercial helicopters, bigger than any now in commercial use. Adapted from the H21 Work Horse models used by the U.S. Defense Department, the new models range from a utility passenger-cargo model carrying 19 passengers plus cargo, to a custom-fitted executive model. Prices start...
Nearly one million railroad workers will be affected, as well as a couple of hundred thousand workers in the aircraft and electrical manufacturing industries. Their wage rates are geared partly by labor contracts to the government's index of living costs. The index has hit a new high for each of the last six months...
...startling as the saucerlike oval sheltering Pan American World Airways' passengers and planes. In plans for Pan Am's $8.000,000 jet-age terminal, announced last week, the chief feature is a four-acre cantilever roof of prestressed concrete that extends 110 ft. over the aircraft parking apron. Protected by the overhanging roof, travelers will board their planes directly from second-floor waiting rooms along level gangplanks 10 ft. above the ground. Incoming passengers who do not have to go through customs will get their baggage within five minutes from a speedy conveyer belt...