Word: canberras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Except for two squadrons of Canberra bombers, the R.A.F. Bomber Command is flying World War II aircraft. The Vickers Valiant, Britain's four-jet atom carrier, is not yet in production...
...lecturer in economics in 1946 and '47, and student at the Harvard-assisted Yenching University, Lindsay is now a member of the faculty at the National University in Canberra, Australia...
...addition, Martin took a $36 million beating on its ill-fated 2-0-2 transport (TIME, April 23), has taken another beating so far on its new two-motored airline plane, the 4-0-4. One of Martin's major jobs-building Britain's twin-jet Canberra bomber-has proved costly. There have been long delays trying to mesh British and American blueprints...
...star of the show was the Vickers Valiant, a four-jet, swept-wing bomber, which British airmen are already calling "the aircraft of the year." It has more range, speed, altitude and load-carrying capacity than the Canberra, which holds the speed record over the Atlantic and is being mass-produced for the U.S. Air Force by Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore...
...From Canberra the Conants went to Melbourne and from there to 'Adelaide. In the middle of August they reached Auckland. New Zealand and headed back to the United States at the end of the month...