Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When TWA gets its first commercial Constellations in a few weeks, it will start its commercial flights across the Atlantic forthwith. Jack Frye promised that TWA's new beauties could fly nonstop from New York to Paris in about 14 hours, little more than half the present flying time of Pan American Airways Corp. and American Export Airlines, Inc. Furthermore, said Mr. Frye unctuously, TWA will cut the present transatlantic fare of $572 substantially, set it at a "reasonable" figure...
...over Canada the planes ran into headwinds and trouble. They used up so much gas that they all had to come down at Chicago. But it was still the longest nonstop flight in U.S. Army history.* At Chicago they refueled and went on to Washington. Time for the 5,995-mile nonstop flight to Chicago: 25 hours, 43 minutes, an average speed of about 286 m.p.h. Said Lieut. General Barney Giles, commanding the flight: "This was a practical test, not a stunt." He added that planes soon will be flying back and forth without trouble all the time...
...World's record nonstop flight was made in 1938 by two British Royal Air Force Vickers-Wellesley planes between Ismailia, Egypt and Darwin, Australia...
With a service ceiling of 45,000 ft., it can thunder along at 550 m.p.h. Stories of its vast speed include one that a P-80 was flown from California to New York in three hours and 57 minutes. (Best previous nonstop time: six hours, 39½ minutes). Its power is a kerosene-burning jet engine: it has no propeller. Its round nose houses six 50-cal. machine guns. On its wings it can carry either bombs or fuel tanks. Wings and torpedo-like fuselage are painted and polished to the slickness...
...controls of a B29, General LeMay flew the 4,640 miles from Hawaii to Washington for a new nonstop record...