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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been made in moving closer towards China have been more than compensated by damage to friendship with America." The Economist noted "a most dangerous atmosphere of complacency." Next evening, ignoring such rare voices in their new forest of appeasement, Eden and Sir Winston Churchill boarded a Stratocruiser chartered from BOAC. They took off into stiff head winds, blowing hard from the direction of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Risks of a Municheer | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...flew home from Ceylon without passengers, cruising at a relatively low 20,000 ft. De Havilland, which had first thought of sending test pilots aloft as human guinea pigs to duplicate the Italian crash conditions, has decided against it. Instead, it put mechanics to work taking apart two complete BOAC Comets, checking every part from trim tabs to turbine blades. At the R.A.F. test station at Farnborough, other experts examined the salvaged wreckage of the first Italian crash last January, including all four engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Comet on the Bench | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Plane Shortage. Whatever the reason, De Havilland's troubles are a serious blow to Britain's brave experiment to capture the lead in jet transports. The grounding of the Comets leaves British Overseas Airways with only 43 planes, half U.S.-built, for its worldwide routes. BOAC has been forced to close down its South American routes, thus losing $280,000 a week in passenger revenues. To build up its fleet, the company was trying to borrow Lockheed Constellations from Australia's Quantas Empire Airways, was reportedly talking about buying new piston-powered Constellations direct from Lockheed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Comet on the Bench | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

Operated by South African Airways, a partner of BOAC, the Comet Yoke Yoke was on its regular scheduled flight from London to Johannesburg. Barely 16 days had elapsed since BOAC lifted the ban that had grounded its Comet fleet following the last fatal crash (TIME, Jan. 18), but Yoke Yoke's 21 passengers were brimming with confidence. Waiting for take-off at Rome's Ciampino Airport, one of the three Americans, a Massachusetts shoe-parts manufacturer named Ray Wilkinson, said to his companion: "This is progress. Sure, they've had accidents, but everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death of the Comet I | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...BOAC technicians hurried down from London to investigate the crash, the third fatal crash in Comet history, fishermen, rescue planes and ships from the U.S. Sixth Fleet combed the water for survivors. They found none, but amid the flotsam of wreckage that floated on the Tyrrhenian Sea to mark the Comet's grave, 15 bodies were recovered. In an age of urgency and jet propulsion, the Comet's passengers had met their end as swiftly as they had pursued their goals upon earth. Said an examining surgeon: "They showed no look of terror. Death must have come without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Column of Smoke | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

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