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Died. Sir Myles Wyatt, 64, British aviation magnate, who built a small aeronautical company into British United Airways, Europe's biggest privately owned airline; in Colchester, England. In 1934, Wyatt joined Airwork Ltd., an aviation-equipment supplier, became managing director in 1938, in the postwar years snapped up smaller independent airlines to form BUA, and in 1961 created Air Holdings Ltd., a financial umbrella for the group, which recently agreed to purchase 50 Lockheed airbuses for $750 million, intending to use or resell the planes overseas...
...plane (owned by a British firm, Airwork, Ltd.) had its seats arranged in a novel way: backs to the engines, so that passengers faced the tail. Many air experts have long held that this would be safer in case of accidents. As the Hermes cracked open, most of the passengers were hurled from their seats through the huge gash in the plane's body, into the sea. Seven people were almost certainly killed. But 50 got off with nothing worse than a chilly dunking, were quickly rescued by Sicilian fishermen...
...foot and occasionally hands & knees, some 70,000 devotees annually make the hajj over the desert sands to Mecca. Last week, fat, wealthy Mussulmen loath to subject themselves to such a hot, dusty, brigand-infested journey had for the first time a better means of travel. From Cairo, Misr Airwork of Egypt inaugurated a special service for pilgrims, flying up the Nile to Aswan, thence across the Red Sea to Jidda and on into the interior to isolated Mecca. Fare...
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