Word: avro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tailless jet. As chief design engineer for special projects at A.V. Roe Canada. Ltd. (part of Britain's famed Hawker-Siddeley aircraft group), he worked on Canada's first home-built jet fighter, the CF-100. Meanwhile, in a top-secret screened area at Avro's Maiton plant, he designed flying saucers-at least one 40-ft. mockup, with a flattened end and spindly undercarriage. This model, quickly nicknamed he "Praying Mantis," was designed to take off at a 40° angle after a short...
...speed record (held by the U.S. since June 19, 1947) gave a big lift to the Farnborough show, the world's No. 1 aviation exhibition. The show itself was as spectacular as ever, with radical-shaped aircraft cavorting all over the place. Best eye-catchers: two white Avro Vulcans, delta-winged bombers that look like great albino sting rays sliding through the sky (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The Gloster Javelin day & night fighter was another impressive delta wing...
...Next worst disasters: Dec. 20, 1952: U.S.A. F. Globemaster at Moses Lake, Wash.; 87 killed. March 12, 1950: chartered Avro Tudor airliner at Cardiff, Wales; 80 killed. June 24, 1950: North west Air Lines DC-4 in Lake Michigan: 58 killed...
BRITAIN'S A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd. is ready to build the Avro "Atlantic," world's first delta-wing airliner. A commercial version of the Vulcan four-jet bomber now in production, the 600-m.p.h. Atlantic would carry 90 to 115 passengers (sitting backward for greater safety in case of a crash). Estimated elapsed time from London to New York: 6½ hours nonstop. With production contracts, Avro promises delivery...
...Black Eagle has become accustomed to a fantastic up & down career in the years since 1923, when he learned parachute jumping from Clarence Chamberlin (who later flew the Atlantic). Chamberlin found Julian a reluctant student, finally made him jump by flipping him off the wings of an Avro biplane. Julian landed safely, still clutching a strut he had ripped from the Avro. The Eagle later made many spectacular jumps over Harlem, playing a saxophone as he floated down in red tights. He also learned to fly himself...