Word: avon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...movie the Vertijet made its entrance riding horizontally on a low, flat trailer encrusted with mechanism. Test Pilot Peter F. Girard climbed into the cockpit, a mechanic closed the canopy over his head, and the X-13's Rolls-Royce Avon engine began its whining roar...
Stately Homes. Europe is still the first love of footloose Americans. Britain expects 5% more Americans than last year's 255,400, who enriched Her Majesty's dollar reserves by $148 million. One-fifth of them will do the Windsor-Stratford-on-Avon-Warwick Castle-Edinburgh packaged run. But more and more are turning up in Torquay, the poor man's Riviera, and in Brighton, Britain's Atlantic City, or in the picturesque homes of British aristocracy which have been thrown open, at a fee, to tourists. Last week the Duke of Bedford...
Charles B. Smith '58 of Lowell House and Avon, Ohio, and Eliot Bernat '60 of Hurlbut and West Newton, Mass., were elected vice-presidents. Earl W .Campbell '58 of Leverett House and Bowling Green, Ohio, was chosen treasurer of the organization...
...company was one of the first in turboprops with its Dart engine (1,780 h.p.), which is a main reason for Vickers' spectacular success (total sales: 353 planes) with its Viscount airliner (TIME, Jan. 3, 1955). As for Rolls's pure jet engines, its latest Avon turbojet is rated at better than 10,000 Ibs. of thrust, not only powers a wide range of military craft in Britain, but is also reaching out for civilian markets, will be in de Havilland's redesigned Comet IV jetliner...
...Finnie of East Cleveland; Gerald E. P. Gillespie of Kirkland and East Cleveland; Warren B. Harshman of Kirkland and Cincinnati; Harmon E. Kirby of Leverett and Hamilton; Charles S. La Monte of Dunster and Columbus; Alan L. Lebowitz of Lowell and Youngstown; and Taylor J. Smith of Lowell and Avon...