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Smith, boss of the biggest U.S. airline,* this week threw cold water on the idea that U.S. domestic carriers will soon adopt jet transports such as the British Comet...
Said Smith: "The time for that is more distant than some are willing to believe." The basic trouble with the Comet, Smith told a transportation conference at Syracuse University, is that its tremendous fuel consumption (10,000 lbs. per hour) cuts down the space left for payload. Other drawbacks: "It is inefficient at low altitude and at reduced power...
Newspapers such as the New Orleans States, Thibodaux, La. Lafourche Comet, and Opelousas, La. Daily World, which experimented with bagasse paper, say it is whiter and stronger than Canadian newsprint. Nobody really thought bagasse would ever take over the Canadian mills' U.S. markets. But publishers hoped that the threat of bagasse competition would keep Canadian prices in line...
Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret will fly by Comet jet airliner from London to Southern Rhodesia next June to open a Cecil Rhodes centenary exhibition...
While not so fast as the Comet, which cruises at 480 m.p.h., the Super Connie, with a much longer range, will be able to fly from London to Johannesburg with one stop in 20 hours, a trip which now takes the Comet about 24 hours, with five refueling stops. Furthermore, the Super Connie itself will shortly take an intermediate step toward jet propulsion in a "turboprop" (i.e., jet-driven propellers) version as soon as turboprop engines are available for commercial use. (Lockheed is already building two Super Connies with Pratt & Whitney T-34 turboprops for the Navy.) These engines will...