Word: cometted
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...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...
...years at BOAC. He stirred up storms by pruning BOAC's staff from 24,000 to 18,000. And he galled Britons by replacing British planes with U.S. Boeing Stratocruisers and Lockheed Constellations. Recently, he ordered Douglas DC-7Cs as substitutes for de Havilland's ill-fated Comet jet liner. Said Sir Miles last week: "I was tired of being the whipping boy of some politicians. You can either have a competitive airline using the best available equipment, or you can have a shopwindow for British aircraft. But if you choose the second alternative, you must not expect...