Word: britannia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edinburgh. Last week a London newspaper reported what palace officials had known for six months -that Mike and his wife were separating. Gossipists were prompt to link Parker's name (without foundation) to that of another woman, and the news was duly radioed to the royal yacht Britannia, on which both the Duke and Parker were approaching Gibraltar at the end of a four-month, globe-girdling tour of the Commonwealth. Soon afterward the palace announced that Parker had left his job, and the two old buddies said an unsmiling goodbye at Gibraltar...
...Lisbon to join her husband for two days before they pay a state visit to Portugal. Soon the headlines were foreseeing a second honeymoon. In preparation the Duke shaved off the reddish, roguish beard he had cultivated during a six-week whisker-growing contest aboard the Britannia...
...BRITANNIA TURBOJETS will go into commercial service in February. After many delays, Britain's Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd. has modified turbine engines, cured problems of icing, flameouts. British Overseas Airways Corp. will start planes that can carry up to 133 passengers on London-South Africa run, later fly them to Australia, Far East...
...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...