Word: comets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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General LeMay was thinking of Boeing's swept-wing 707 as a rival for Britain's Comet jetliners as well as a flying tanker-transport to refuel his jet bombers in midair. To Boeing, which has built more than 600 of LeMay's six-jet B-47 bombers and is now turning out the eight-jet B-52, the big plane was also a lot more than just an aerial nursemaid. Boeing President William M. Allen thinks his new 707 has an even greater future as the first U.S. commercial jet transport, and has gambled $20 million...
Boeing's first orders for its 707 will probably come from the Air Force. But Boeing also hopes to line up commercial orders and beat out not only Douglas, but the British as well. Britain's sleek Comet III, the first Comet U.S. airlines are interested in, will be ready late...
...weekly trans-Pacific service, flying DC-6Bs piloted by Americans. The airline hopes to get a fat slice of travel business now split largely between Pan American and Northwest Airlines. By the summer of 1955, J.A.L. hopes to halve San Francisco-Tokyo running time to 15 hours by using Comet II's, plans to start a now Tokyo-to-London jet Service across Asia...
Half an hour later, an Italian fisherman cruising off the island of Elba (where Napoleon was once a prisoner) marked the Comet's presence in the sky overhead. "I heard a roar," he said, "very high. Then there was a series of blasts. The next thing I saw was a column of smoke plunging straight down into...
...BOAC technicians hurried down from London to investigate the crash, the third fatal crash in Comet history, fishermen, rescue planes and ships from the U.S. Sixth Fleet combed the water for survivors. They found none, but amid the flotsam of wreckage that floated on the Tyrrhenian Sea to mark the Comet's grave, 15 bodies were recovered. In an age of urgency and jet propulsion, the Comet's passengers had met their end as swiftly as they had pursued their goals upon earth. Said an examining surgeon: "They showed no look of terror. Death must have come without...