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...father of two children? British newshens clucked and asked if that was why the Princess looked so sad and wan in her latest pictures from Africa. From Rhodesia came another explanation: the bite of Rhodesia's cold wave. Queen Mother Elizabeth and Margaret stepped off their Comet in light summer dresses, have been shivering and forcing smiles ever since. Added mishap: the Queen Mother's hatbox got away from the 49 other pieces of royal luggage, wound up 600 miles away in Johannesburg...
FIRST fruit of the recently signed ten-year agreement between Westinghouse and Rolls-Royce (TIME, June 22) will probably be an announcement that Westinghouse will build the British Avon RA16 jet engine (9,000 lbs. thrust) which will power Britain's Comet IIIs, and possibly the new top-secret Conway, expected to have a thrust matching Pratt & Whitney's J-57, now the world's most powerful jet engine...
...last week disclosed derails of the new plane. The first U.S. entry into the field of jet passenger liners, Boeing's 707 will be the world's fastest and most powerful transport, with a cruising speed of well over 500 m.p.h. v. about 500 m.p.h. for the Comet III, Britain's most advanced passenger jet. It will carry from 60 to 120 passengers, depending on airline requirements...
...scheduled for its first flight next summer, will be powered by four Pratt & Whitney J57 engines, rated at more than 10,000 Ibs. thrust v. 9,000 Ibs. thrust for Comet III engines. Payload of the new plane is put at 25,000 Ibs.. an increase of a third over the 18.750-lb. payload for Boeing's piston-engine Stratocruiser. The new jet transport will have wings swept back at the same angle as the B-47 and B-52 bombers. Cost of the new transport: an estimated...
Douglas also expects to sell the plane to foreign lines, fears no competition from Britain's Comet. While the Comet will go faster between stops, Douglas thinks that the DC-7 will beat it in elapsed time because it will not have to make the refueling stops needed by the shorter-range Comet. Douglas is still tight-lipped about its own plans for jet transports, but the DC-7, says Vice President Arthur Raymond, "is definitely our last piston-type transport of the DC-7 size...