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Last week the cross-Channel dig was back in the news. After two years of underwater testing and 56,000 interviews with Dover-to-Calais travelers, a combined group of English, French and U.S. engineers and economists prepared to announce, in a $700,000 report, that a tunnel through the chalk strata between England and France was both technically and economically feasible. Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, onetime head of the Foreign Office, and now co-chairman of the Channel Tunnel Study Group, indicated that the 36-mile rail tunnel under the Channel would cost over $300 million, could bring...
...flight across the English Channel, paid French Aeronaut Louis Bleriot $5,000 for buzzing the 31 miles from Calais to Dover in his tiny (25 h.p.) monoplane in 37 minutes. Last week the Daily Mail could think of no better way to celebrate the anniversary than to have a cross-Channel race, this time between London's midtown Marble Arch and Paris' midtown Arc de Triomphe, and with $28,000 in prize money at stake. The result was one of the zaniest races of all time...
...time can be brought down to near enough 40 minutes." That it was. At the end, R.A.F. Squadron Leader Charles Maughan, 35, got the last bit of ground speed from the motorcycle-helicopter system, picked up precious minutes by flying a transonic Hawker Hunter jet on the long cross-Channel air leg. His winning time...
...radio speech announcing his decision, Adenauer took a few angry slaps at Britain and provoked a cross-Channel exchange of insults, thus bringing into the open the stress and strains of the postwar marriage of convenience between Britain and West Germany. But Britain, and particularly its press, was somewhat at odds with all its partners on the eve of East-West negotiations. See FOREIGN NEWS. The Strange British Mood...
...from Chålons-sur-Marne to Reims. One of the first designers to utilize such basic devices as the aileron and floats for hydroplanes, he set up his own factories before World War I. In 1917 he built the Goliath, prototype of big passenger airliners and inaugurator of cross-Channel commercial service; by 1932 he had built a monoplane hermetically sealed for the stratosphere...