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VICKERS VISCOUNT, Britain's most successful postwar transport, will soon replace U.S. Convair 240s on short-haul routes on Holland's KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Vickers has sold nine Viscounts worth $11 million to KLM, landed orders for five planes from three U.S. corporations (U.S. Steel, Standard Oil Co. of California, Hughes Tool Co.), thus breaking into the lucrative business-flying field for the first time. Total Viscounts sold to date...
...KLM transatlantic DC-6B, with only twelve of 66 seats occupied, was just 25 miles from the safety of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The pilot, Captain Charles Harman, 36, a veteran of 170 Atlantic crossings, was more than an hour ahead of schedule on a flight from New York's Idlewild Field. Some time in the next few minutes, the plane plummeted into the cold waters of the North Sea. Residents of the Dutch town of Schoorl reported that they heard an explosion, but no one knew what had gone wrong. All aboard were killed: 21 persons, including...
...studying the situation with the help of the free press of the world. I realize now more than ever how much the press can be of service . . ." In a strangely wonderful way, the Shah seemed to feel that those telling him about the events were making them happen. When KLM Airline refused to take reporters without visas, an aide to the Shah warned the airline: "Keep on like this and . . . you may find your airline into Teheran shut down." KLM quickly announced that "journalists can go on their own responsibility." "They go on my responsibility," snapped the Shah. "They...
...turned into a minor international cult. Today, Esperantists claim to be 1,500,000 strong, about 10,000 of them in the U.S. There are Esperanto books from La Sankta Biblio to Kiel Plaĉas Al Vi (As You Like It). Australia has made a movie in it; KLM has advertised, "Flugado ŝparas tempon kaj monon" (Flying saves time and money); and Bing Crosby sang an Esperanto song in The Road to Singapore. Last week the Thollets proved what tourists can accomplish by simply asking, "Ĉu vi parolas Esperante...
...reaches a cruising speed of 340 m.p.h., or 13 miles faster than the non-compounded Super Connies already being flown by Eastern Airlines and T.W.A. The U.S. Navy will get the first model late this month. In March, Lockheed will deliver the first commercial model to Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM), one of eleven international airlines which have ordered it. Eastern will get the first U.S. deliveries in late...