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DIED. Leonard Sinclair Hobbs, 80, aviation engineer who developed the powerful J57 jet engine; of a stroke; in Hartford, Conn. Hobbs, who designed the carburetor for Charles Lindbergh's The Spirit of St. Louis, joined Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in 1927. As their chief engineer, he developed the R-2800 Double Wasp workhorse engine of World War II planes...
Thirty-six and a half hours to... takeoff? Lindbergh made it to Paris in less time 50 years ago, when Freddie Laker was a toddler of four. What's more, Lindy did not have a toothache, as did I, and he was warmer and drier. My wait began at noon Sunday in London-style rain and drizzle outside the Laker Travel Center in Queens, New York, five miles from Kennedy Airport. Not until 12:38 a.m. Tuesday-1% hours behind schedule -did we lift off from Kennedy...
Freddie Laker is no Rickenbacker, Lindbergh, Mitchell, Doolittle or Armstrong. But the feisty Englishman has made aviation history in his own way, by forcing transatlantic fares lower than major airlines had said they could ever go. In June, Laker won approval from the Carter Administration to offer round-trip flights between New York City and London on his 13-jet Laker Airways for $236-almost $100 less than the cheapest non-charter fare-starting Sept. 26. Last week six major airlines countered with a cut-rate transatlantic fare of their own, tossing in some of the amenities that Laker...
...coaster is a form of rebellion against smother love and all its safety, a final plunge to freedom from childhood dependency. Others theorize latent death wishes or the need to act out and exorcise fears. For some, the motivation is simpler. Two years after he crossed the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh took a spin on the Coney Island Cyclone, one of the oldest roller coasters still in operation (it is celebrating its 50th anniversary this summer). Later, he testified: "A ride on Cyclone is a greater thrill speed." After half a century, the thrill -and the terror-of the Cyclone...
There were British, American, French, Swedish and Israeli warplanes, a Soviet SST and even a new Polish crop duster, a jet that can fly only 100 m.p.h. But the star of Paris' biennial Air Show was Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 70, whose husband Charles touched down at Le Bourget airport 50 years ago at the end of his epic transatlantic flight. With her son Scott, she made an appearance for the dedication of a memorial to Lindy. Displaying a delicate sense of the appropriate, Transportation Secretary Brock Adams, in attendance to open the U.S. pavilion at the show, gallantly passed...