Word: comets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 20 months ago, a sleek new Comet jet-powered transport plane, the pride of the British Overseas Airways, took off from London Airport to inaugurate a new era of travel in which men could hurry about their business on the globe's shrinking surface at speeds close to eight miles a minute. One day last week, the same plane took off from Rome on the last leg of the now routine jet flight from Singapore to London. Aboard were 35 passengers and crewmen, including Australia's able historian of World War II, Chester Wilmot (The Struggle...
With his bustling wife, Jennie Lee (who is a Bevanite M.P.), Nye Bevan dropped into Cairo by Comet jetliner last week for a quick look at the archeological and political sights of Egypt. Technically, it was just a stopover-the Bevans were on their way to Egypt's old enemy, Israel, on a junket. In Cairo, the Bevans stayed with their old friend, Indian Ambassador Sardar Panikkar, the diplomat who did so much to persuade India's Nehru not to be beastly to the Communist government in Peking. Currently Panikkar is working with might & main to persuade Egypt...
...Delta Aquarids, the trio of scientists stated, move in a highly elliptical orbit around the sun. Such an orbit differs greatly from that of any other meteor swarms. According to the astronomers, the particles did not originate from the debris of a comet in the usual manner of meteor formation...
...Gyron is an axial-flow engine, intended for use in supersonic aircraft, while all De Havilland's previous jets (e.g., the Goblin, which powers the Vampire fighter, and the Ghost, which powers the Comet and the Venom fighter), have been centrifugal types.* De Havilland said that the engine, which has low gas consumption and a low ratio of weight to thrust, is being developed first for supersonic fighter planes, later could be built for transports. Said De Havilland: the Gyron is the first of "a new generation of really large turbine-jet power units. The company is confident that...
FRANCE'S Union Aéromaritime de Transport started the world's first tourist-fare jet flights. On its run between Paris and Brazzaville, the line's Comet jets carry 44 passengers (v. 36 on regular-fare flights) for 107,000 francs ($305) each-$75 less than Air France's deluxe Constellation fare, and the same price as Air France's tourist service...