Word: havilland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a cruising range of about 1,200 miles, Avro's Jetliner was planned especially to meet Canadian conditions for fast, economical inter-city air service (it will not compete with the British De Havilland Comet for transocean traffic). An all-Canadian job except for its four Rolls-Royce Derwent V engines, it was designed to carry a load of 50 passengers plus crew of three, and to fly 430 m.p.h...
There is, of course, a big nucleus of still-bright stars like Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Betty Grable, Gregory Peck, Esther Williams, Linda Darnell, Tyrone Power, Jimmy Stewart, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine. But the public, according to experienced Hollywoodsmen, is scanning the marquees for new names...
Four Ghosts. The Comet was designed and built in secrecy; De Havilland has not yet released many of its details. It is about as big as a DC-6, with its four Rolls-Royce Ghost jet engines looking sleek and slim on its moderately swept-back wings. Its claimed cruising speed is 500 m.p.h. at 35-40,000 feet. At this speed and altitude, each Ghost develops thrust equivalent to 10,500 h.p. The Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp reciprocating engines that power the DC-6 develop only about 2,100 h.p. at full throttle...
...boring flight across the Atlantic almost in half. It is expected to make New York nonstop from London in six to seven hours; it would be no trick at all to make a round trip in a day. Four hops could get it to Australia in 36 hours. De Havilland hopes that many passengers in a hurry will gladly pay extra for speed...
...Havilland has orders for 14 Comets from British Overseas Airways Corp. and British South American Airways Corp but it does not expect to see any of them in actual passenger service for two or three years. Like all new aircraft, the plane must undergo elaborate flight tests. But De Havilland claims to have licked one great problem: noise. The scream of the jet engines is for innocent bystanders only; it is hardly heard on board...