Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last month Ibo passengers on West African Airways' London-to-Lagos jet were hauled off the plane and machine-gunned in the northern Nigerian way station of Kano. Pan American's New York-to-Nairobi Flight 150 lived up to the tradition. Last week a simple refueling halt enroute grew into an international incident...
...take the offer: most of the Ghanaians in Conakry are members of Nkrumah's personal entourage who, in Accra, would face jail, a trial, and perhaps a firing squad. At week's end, Ghana's strongman, Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah flew off-via a Ghana Airways jet-to Addis Ababa to talk the whole thing over. After huddling with Emperor Haile Selassie, Liberia's President Tubman and Egypt's Nasser, Ankrah relented. To Accra went a message: turn the imprisoned Guineans loose...
...resurgence of Northrop as an aircraft maker. The company developed the plane in 1959 at a relatively cheap cost of $80 million, of which the Government provided $60 million. It was designed to meet Jones's demand for a supersonic jet that "could survive and win in a sky full of MIGs" - yet sell at a price U.S. allies could afford...
Survive & Win. Built by Beverly Hills-based Northrop Corp., the plane is that rarest of all U.S. birds: the military jet that succeeds without a fat Pentagon order. So far, some 300 F-5s have been purchased by 15 countries, ranging around the globe from Ethiopia to Canada to South Korea. On the books, Northrop has orders for 800 more, worth a total of $600 million...
...July, aircraft building accounted for nearly half the company's $359 million record sales, which have increased 40% over the last eight years. For the future, Northrop has a contract, which eventually may be worth as much as $500 million, to build fuselages for the Boeing 747 jet. Moreover, foreign sales of the F-5 can only increase. With the expected orders from Belgium and Holland, Northrop hopes that Denmark, Austria and Switzerland will sign up too-just to keep up with the neighbors...