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...Pacific and Australia-London routes, expects to be first foreign line to operate U.S. jet equipment. Looking the other direction, New England's little Northeast Airlines, which recently won rich New York-to-Florida route, says it will probably buy from five to seven British Bristol Britannia turboprops at cost of $20 million...
Orion & Olympus. At Farnborough last week, most of the big companies had some new engines to display. Bristol Aeroplane Co., whose economical Proteus turboprop powers the new Britannia airliner (TIME, Dec. 19), showed off a bigger, 5,000-h.p. Orion version slated for 1959 production and an improved Olympus turbojet engine rated at a whopping 16,000 Ibs. of thrust. De Havilland uncorked a new gadget: a Supersprite rocket engine that weighs only 600 Ibs., yet can produce some 4,000 Ibs. of thrust for 40 sec. to lift heavily laden planes off short runways...
Cover-Up v. Correction. The British have spent huge sums on aircraft, e.g., the Bristol Brabazon, that were abandoned before they ever went into operation (TIME, Dec. 19). And many combat planes, such as the Supermarine Swift fighter (cost: some $60 million), were delivered months or years late, then proved so inadequate that they had to be withdrawn from service. The British, charged Waterton, are "trailing behind America and Russia," which have both produced supersonic fighters in quantity and have bombers in service "twice as big as our largest." Through lethargy and bad planning, Britain's planemakers have missed...
...Chicago; and Donald R. Spuehler of Kirkland and Elgin; Iowa: Jack J. Stiffler of Adams and Mitchellville; Kansas: Karl G. Heider of Winthrop and Lawrence and Cliff F. Thompson of Lowell and Kansas City; Maine: James F. Armstrong of Dunster and Wilton and Bruce F. Cameron of Kirkland and Bristol...
...Parish. The idea of the Flying Angels took wing one bright summer's day in 1835 when a young vacationing Anglican minister named John Ashley stood with his son looking out over the Bristol Channel. The little boy pointed to two lonely islands, Steep Holme and Flat Holme, lying far out in the haze. "How can those people go to church, Father?" he asked...