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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nihon Aeroplane Manufacturing Co. (which was formed especially for the purpose with 54% government capital), the plane incorporates a high percentage of foreign components, including its twin Rolls-Royce Dart RDa. 10/1 engines. In their desire to sell the YS 11 as a latter-day replacement for the workhorse DC-3, its designers sacrificed both speed (295 m.p.h.) and range (380 miles with a full load of 60 passengers) in order to cut the plane's normal take-off run to as little as 3,000 ft. Trouble is that by December 1963, when the first YS 11 production...
...Girl with the Golden Eyes. Pas pour les enfants: a story, updated by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco from a feverish romance by Balzac, of love on the AC-DC circuit...
...Girl with the Golden Eyes. Pas pour les enfants: a story, adapted by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco from a feverish romance by Balzac, of love on the AC-DC circuit...
...Aircraft Corp.'s 63-passenger BAG One-Eleven, which is powered by two Rolls-Royce fan jet engines, one placed on either side of the rear fuselage. The world's only short-range commercial jetliner now in production, the BAG One-Eleven aspires to be the workhorse DC-3 of the jet age when it goes into commercial service in 1964. British Aircraft Corp. has 33 orders, including four from the U.S.'s Mohawk Airlines and six from Braniff. Price: about $2.5 million each...
...Aeronaves de Mexico DC-8 crashed and burned after an aborted take-off from New York's Idlewild Airport on Jan. 19, 1961 (4 dead, 102 survivors), apparently primarily because Eastern Air Lines Pilot William B. Poe closed the throttles just after liftoff. Poe, on hand to check out the plane's Mexican crew, was misled by an evidently faulty airspeed indicator which made him think the aircraft was not picking up speed fast enough to sustain flight...