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While ABC waited, CBS and NBC worked feverishly against time. In England, hoping to steal a march on its rival, NBC borrowed a Canberra jet bomber, loaded it with their own and CBC's first films of the coronation, sent it off two hours ahead of the three Canberras that were standing by to carry the films of all the networks to Goose Bay, Labrador. Two hours out over the Atlantic, NBC's special jet ran into mechanical trouble and had to turn back...
...film is shot in London, it will be rushed by motorcycle, car and helicopter to the airport, where three pooled Canberra jets will be standing by to take off for Goose Bay, Labrador. Last week NBC and CBS representatives in Washington tried unsuccessfully to wheedle additional jets from the U.S. Air Force. Instead, NBC will load its films at Goose Bay into a souped-up PSI flown by Racing Pilot Stan Reaver. CBS, not to be outdone, will put its films into a PSI flown by Speed Pilot Joe DeBona. Both planes will race for Boston, and the films will...
Britain claimed a new jet altitude record last week: 63,668 ft. over southwest England. The plane was a Canberra bomber with two Bristol Olympus turbojet engines, piloted by R.A.F. Wing Commander Walter F. Gibb...
...motors need no air to breathe, they are considered in a separate class. They can fly under full power for only two or three minutes, and when trying for an altitude record, they must be dropped from the belly of a high-flying bomber. Wing Commander Gibb's Canberra took off from the ground in the normal way and stayed in the air for 61 minutes. At the top of its flight, its engines were breathing air only one-thirteenth as dense as air at sea level...
Then came airliners and bombers. A Vickers Viscount liner swooped over the field with three of its four turboprop engines feathered, and did a climbing turn. A Canberra jet bomber whirled in acrobatics as if it were a carnival stunt plane. A Comet jet liner lumbered down the runway, then jumped steeply into the air, pushed by rocket boosters...