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...palace discords back home in The Netherlands (TIME, Oct. 29), Prince Bernhard, seeming to be enjoying every moment of his bachelor vacation away from Queen Juliana, concentrated on donning a life preserver at Jacksonville. Fla. An able airman and best-known jet pilot among Europe's royalty, Bernhard then flew off to the aircraft carrier Forrestal for an informal two-day fling with the U.S.'s Atlantic Fleet...
...ever flown before. The plane was Bell Aircraft Co.'s X-2 research plane (see SCIENCE), and the news of its record-breaking flight was a farewell accolade to the man who built it. At 62, Bell President Lawrence Dale Bell, for 45 years a pioneering airman, announced that he was moving over to board chairman, leaving the operation of the company to his second in command, Vice President Leston P. Faneuf...
...Though workers called the project "Larry's Folly," Bell's new interest was helicopters, because "you're like a bird-you can go anywhere you want." By 1946 Bell was in production with its first basic Model 47 helicopter, has since sold more than 1,000. Airman Bell also led the attack on the sound barrier with the stainless-steel, rocket-engined X-1, which blazed to a 967-m.p.h. speed record in 1948. Five years later Bell's improved X-1A topped 1,650 m.p.h. and a 90,000-ft. altitude (TIME...
...Although Airman Ostrander did not disclose the size of individual contracts, a solid estimate is that the Government has invested $5 billion in missiles, will spend $1.2 billion this year alone. As for progress to date, Ostrander disclosed that Lockheed has already test-flown a nose cone through and possibly beyond the ionosphere, a layer of thin air 50 to 250 miles above the earth. This indicates that the U.S. has met some success on probably the most difficult of all missile problems: re-entry into the stratosphere. Said Ostrander: "No major breakthroughs are necessary to build and launch...
...main trouble, says Airman Waterton, is that "few British firms understand development work." British aircraft companies seldom produce enough prototypes of a new plane, thus face delays if a prototype is cracked up. Instead of trying to correct the deficiencies that show up in the prototypes, British aircraft "boffins," i.e., chairborne scientists, try to cover up to save costly redesigning. Despite the industry's often brilliant performance at Britain's annual Farnborough air show, Waterton points out that the show is "a lot of sham." The aircraft entered are often prototypes, years from the production line and often...