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...never hesitated to claim mastery over the waves, reduced the Atlantic to mere ditch-size. The three-man crew of a sleek, black & silver British Canberra Mark V jet bomber took off from Northern Ireland's Aldergrove Airport one morning, crossed the Atlantic, had lunch in Gander, Newfoundland, and were back at Aldergrove in time for tea. Flying time: 7 hrs. 59 minutes...
Wing Commander Roland Beamont, the pilot, reported that he saw the sun coming up over Ireland as he took off. As he landed at Gander, the sun was just over the horizon: the plane had come within an ace of keeping pace with the sun's own transatlantic crossing...
...camps, where they died. The Norwegians buried them in 200 graveyards scattered throughout their country. Ever since, like none-too-welcome neighbors once carelessly invited to dinner, Russian officials have been dropping over. Nominally they came to inspect the graves, but they used the occasion to take a good gander at Norway's defenses. The Norwegians have never complained, but in their laconic way they began moving the scattered Russian dead into one of three central graveyards, less handy for snooping...
...Atlantic-while Elizabeth slumbered in the 6-by-4-ft. bed of her private cabin-the plane began to nudge the edge of a hurricane. The pilot, Captain Oscar Philip Jones, 52, veteran of 3,000,000 air miles, shifted his course, made an unscheduled fuel stop at bleak Gander, Newfoundland. Airborne again after two hours, Elizabeth visited Jones at the controls-asking, he reported later, "some knowledgeable questions." At noon the plane let down through heavy overcast at Montreal's Dorval airport before a crowd of more than 25,000 people...
...light bomber took off from Alder-grove airbase in Northern Ireland and streaked westward, outrunning the thunder of its twin jets. Soaring to 41,000 ft., the R.A.F.'s Canberra raced the sun above it. Four hours and 40 minutes later, it skimmed down to Newfoundland's Gander field. The sun had made the swing in only 3½ hours. But the Canberra, averaging 445 m.p.h., had made the fastest Atlantic crossing ever, the hard way-30 minutes faster than a Mosquito bomber's five hours and ten minutes made from west to east with the prevailing...