Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promising Trial. Last summer the flying tankers, rising from a field in the Azores, refueled 21 nonstop flights from London to Bermuda. Every contact went smoothly. If the North Atlantic trials show the same excellent performance, Sir Alan predicts that many airlines will adopt his system...
BOAC's sister company, British South American Airways, is experimenting with a new trick to speed up Britain's lumbering transports: nonstop Atlantic crossings with midair refueling over the Azores from 'tanker" planes. While Britain bumbles along, smaller nations with bright new U.S. planes are catching some of the cream of world air travel...
Readers who know the name of James Boswell only by hearsay are likely to consider him an intellectual lackey who simply recorded every scrap of conversation that fell from the nonstop mouth of Samuel Johnson. But he was much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this handy Portable, Boswell was both a kind of genius and "a tissue of contrarieties." The man who rushed off to a brothel on hearing of his mother's death "was both cocksure and uncertain of himself; painfully self-searching yet comically self-deluded; a Tory in his beliefs...
...turn back. The DC-6, with its new anti-icing equipment (heated pipes along the leading edges of wings, tail and windshield), went right on through. Three weeks ago, Pat Patterson and about 40 officials and pressmen climbed into a DC-6 in Los Angeles, flew nonstop to New York in 6¾ hours, with the help of a mighty tail wind (top ground speed: 474 m.p.h.). Last week, United took another DC-6 out for a spin. It flew from Omaha to New York in some three hours. This week, after the exhaustive tests, Pat Patterson decided that...
...Britain's H. E. Bates, who served with the R.A.F. in World War II, has written scores of short stories and several other novels (Spella Ho, Fair Stood the Wind for France). His latest is short and exciting enough to be read between supper and bedtime; its nonstop narrative includes the low-level gunning of the Breadwinner by an enemy plane, the damaged ship's run home under sail through a rising storm, the deaths of the rescued pilots. Along with all this, Author Bates raises the moral question that was common in the years following World...