Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Lieut. Felix Anthony ("Doc") Blanchard, 24, hefty "Mr. Inside" of West Point's great wartime football teams, now a jet-plane pilot, and Josephine ("Jody") King Blanchard, 22, San Antonio socialite: their first child, a son; in Sumter, S.C. Name: Felix Anthony 3rd. Weight...
...Thursday a group of attack transports staged an amphibious landing at South Boston. It was a fine show, with Marises and jet planes and underwater demolition teams; it knocked hell out of a public bathhouse, wounded a couple of junior officers, and killed a newspaper photographer...
...Comets, and is hard after U.S. orders, promising delivery in 1952-53-No Hands. In spite of their lead, the British were by no means assured of victory. They have developed techniques before, only to fumble them at the administrative and production level. And there were still many jet plane problems to be licked before the planes were as practical as reciprocating engine types. They are inefficient at low speeds, e.g., when taking off and landing, and consume so much more gas than present commercial planes that they can not be "stacked" at crowded airports while waiting to land...
Nevertheless, the threat was enough to cause U.S. planemakers to sound an alarm. They had no commercial jet planes under construction, or even on order, although their drawing boards were full of sketches. U.S. airlines could not afford the immense cost of a new transport estimated as high as $50 million. Both planemakers and airlines looked to Washington for help, but Washington had not made up its mind what to do. Last year, when the planemakers first woke up to Britain's challenge, they had tried to get Congress to pass a "prototype" bill under which the Federal Government...
...aircraft builders were ready to go whenever anyone placed an order. Lockheed, whose Constellation is a prime target for the Comet to shoot at, has plans for a 40-passenger jet transport which it thinks could keep pace with the Comet and cost no more than a Connie to operate. Douglas also has commercial jets, stalemated at the paper stage. So does Boeing, which said, perhaps overoptimistically, that it could produce a 500-m.p.h. transport within 18 months of receiving a contract. But Boeing's Vice President Wellwood E. Beall warned that Congress would have to act soon. Said...