Word: comets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rolls's pure jet engines, its latest Avon turbojet is rated at better than 10,000 Ibs. of thrust, not only powers a wide range of military craft in Britain, but is also reaching out for civilian markets, will be in de Havilland's redesigned Comet IV jetliner...
...Shute's novel, No Highway (1948), gave an imaginative account of an airliner's disintegration through metal fatigue, which seemed very nearly prophetic in the light of the British Comet crashes...
...BRITISH COMET JETLINERS have been ordered by Capital Airlines, which is doing well with British Vickers Viscount turboprops. Capital will pay $53 million for 14 de Havilland Comet IVs, bigger (74 seats), faster (545 m.p.h.) versions of ill-fated Comet I. Main reason for Capital's move: U.S. jets will be too big, too costly to operate along Capital's medium-range airline routes. Planned delivery date...
Ever discover a comet? Experience isn't always necessary. M. K. Valnu Bappu, an Indian graduate student, proved that a few summers...
When the plate was developed, the graduate student announced, "Now I'm going to look for comets." Bok, amused, chuckled. "Ha, ha, everyone looks for comets." But upon inspection Bappu spotted one, and Gordon A. Newkirk '50 and Bok confirmed his discovery. The comet, of only the thirteenth magnitude, is now known as the Bappu-Bok-Newkirk comet...