Word: lingus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slim Carmichael the Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount seemed custom-made for Capital. It is powered by four Rolls-Royce turboprops (i.e., gas-turbine engines that drive propellers), can carry 48 passengers at a cruising speed of 335 m.p.h. In service with British European Airways, Air France and Air Lingus, the Viscount has proved an economical operator over medium-distance routes such as Capital has from New York and Washington to the Midwest. On European routes its vibration-free performance and relative silence have lured many a traveler from piston-engine planes. While operating cost per hour will be slightly higher than...
...Director Whitney Straight had ordered 25 of the giant Britannias before the prototype made its first flight last week, plans to use its long range (4,000 miles with safe margins) and space to offer nonstop transatlantic coach service by 1954. British European, Air France, Ireland's Aer Lingus, and Trans-Australia have already placed 48 orders for the smaller Viscount...