Word: comets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look at the Soviet liner were not quite as impressed as the commentators. On its 1,564-mile flight from Moscow the airplane averaged 440 m.p.h., and its top air speed, they said, might be 100 m.p.h. higher. This would put it in the range of Britain's Comet and the U.S.'s Boeing and Douglas jet liners, but well short of the U.S.'s B-47 bomber (600 m.p.h...
British experts concede that hardy Russian passengers, having no better choice, may put up with oxygen masks, but they cannot see how an airplane that requires such an antiquated procedure can become competitive outside the Soviet Union-as Moscow has announced that it shall be. (The Comet has an 8,000-ft. pressure in the cabin while flying at 40,000 ft.) Additional pressurizing to make the TU-104 comfortable for its passengers would require considerable redesigning and perhaps a damaging amount of additional weight and additional stress on the air frame...
...years at BOAC. He stirred up storms by pruning BOAC's staff from 24,000 to 18,000. And he galled Britons by replacing British planes with U.S. Boeing Stratocruisers and Lockheed Constellations. Recently, he ordered Douglas DC-7Cs as substitutes for de Havilland's ill-fated Comet jet liner. Said Sir Miles last week: "I was tired of being the whipping boy of some politicians. You can either have a competitive airline using the best available equipment, or you can have a shopwindow for British aircraft. But if you choose the second alternative, you must not expect...
...much more is known about Sharaku. He simply appeared for a moment, brilliant and unexpected as a comet, in the rich, slowly circling heaven...
Great Britain has a pure jetliner capable of flying around the world to a regular timetable. In 1958, or soon after, we shall have the Comet IV, capable of flying regularly and economically on both transatlantic and Commonwealth routes. The R.A.F. has the Comet II in use as a regular military jet transport...