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...advantage of the lone air-transport realm in which the U.S. lags, pointed proudly to 47 orders already on the books for the still unbuilt plane. The French government seized the occasion to order Sud-Aviation to build 13 more of its twin-jet Caravelles, and France's Nord-Aviation showed off the twin-engined Transall cargo plane that it has developed with five German firms...
...engined 737, which is expected to be cleared for production within a month. North American Aviation is studying designs for its Centuryliner, a slightly smaller entry in the field. Abroad, The Netherlands is preparing to enter the race by designing a Fokker F28 Fellowship, and France already has four Nord 262 turboprops in the air and has orders for seven Super-Caravelles, which are only months away from delivery date...
...shifted his tiny Stuttgart engineering firm into the development of complete weapons systems. First came the Cobra, a tank-killer rocket that was adopted by the German army, was sold to Denmark and Italy, and got Bölkow into antitank and antiaircraft rocket research with France's Nord-Aviation. Bölkow today produces a popular helicopter trainer, two light sports airplanes, a glass-fiber glider, thrust-measuring devices, micropumps and a digital data-processing system. It is also one of three firms working on the third stage of Europe's ten-nation commercial satellite program...
...German coastal freighter, Thompson renamed it Bon Jour, recruited deckhands and a disk jockey, surrounded them with broadcasting equipment at a total estimated cost of $700,000. He anchored the Bon Jour a bit more than three miles off Stockholm in international waters, put 20-kw. Radio Nord on the air 18 months...
...Advertisers flocked to buy time at $40 for 60-second spots. Listeners tuned in to tap their feet to U.S. jazz and rock 'n' roll. The embarrassed government threatened to confiscate the ship if it sailed into Swedish waters, predicted that Swedes would get bored with Radio Nord once the novelty wore away. This month, after the station had picked up an estimated 2,600,000 listeners, the government finally cracked down...