Word: comets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Airways Corp., the Empire's biggest airline, formally applied to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation for permission to buy 19 U.S.-built Douglas DC-7C airliners for its transoceanic routes. BOAC and its Chairman Sir Miles Thomas, who once placed their bets on the ill-fated Comet jet transports, now want a modified version of the piston-engined DC-7 of U.S. airlines, enlarged to carry 68 passengers nonstop across the Atlantic. Cost: $42.7 million...
...Princess flying boat has been in the prototype stage since 1946, still needs better engines; Bristol's equally large Brabazon, designed to carry 100 passengers across the Atlantic, never got into production, was finally broken up and sold for scrap. And De Havilland's famed four-jet Comet I was grounded after three crashes...
Viscounts in Vickerland. To Britons, Vickers' new Viscount is soothing balm after the blows to their prestige from the De Havilland Comet crashes. British aviation experts make the point that wherever Viscounts have flown on trunk (under 1,000 mile) routes, the turboprop planes have proved tough competition for piston-engined U.S. transports. Their four 1,400-h.p. Rolls Royce jet engines, hooked to propellers, not only make them about 35 m.p.h. faster than competing Convairs, but also much quieter and smoother riding. (British European Airways passenger traffic has gone up about 26% since switching to Viscounts from...
Robert Lubar was collecting facts on Britain's aircraft industry and also trying to determine to what extent the failure of Britain's ill-fated jet Comet (TIME, Nov. 1) had damaged the industry. Joe David Brown was driving back from a chilly week's traveling in Scotland, where he had been looking into Scotland's spectacular industrial and business expansion...
Still not satisfied, the Farnborough men constructed a large model of a Comet's cabin in transparent plastic. They filled it with model seats and model passengers. They pumped it full of air at 8¼ lbs. Then they deliberately fractured the skin near the direction-finder window and took a motion picture of what happened...