Word: comets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BRITISH AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY whose prestige was hard hit when its Comet I jetliner was grounded after a series of disasters (TIME, May 10), is due for another blow. The government-owned British Overseas Airways Corp., which had hoped to replace its American equipment with new British planes, is negotiating with Douglas Aircraft for ten DC-7s, to be powered by British turboprops, for its future fleets...
...COMET CRASH mystery has finally been solved by British scientists, though Planemaker De Havilland will not announce the findings until the inquiry is formally completed next month. Rumored cause: the intense pressures of high-speed, high-altitude flight caused the metal in the fuselage to "fatigue" and the planes split open in midair, killing...
BOAC is buying eight used Boeing Stratocruisers and seven used Lockheed Constellations to replace its grounded fleet of De Havilland Comets. Newest clue to the cause of the Comet's trouble: pressure tests on a Comet fuselage reportedly caused it to split along one side, indicating that it will have to be strengthened to stand flights...
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...four burly Pratt & Whitney J57 jet engines blast out more than 40,000 Ibs. of thrust, twice the power of the Comet's four engines, enough to push the 707 through the sky at 550-m.p.h. cruising speed, about 60 m.p.h. faster than the Comet I, about 50% faster than the fastest prop-driven airliners. The 707 is designed to fly the Atlantic in less than seven hours, give the sun a race from east to west. It will be able to leave New York at noon, arrive in Los Angeles...