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...rescue of grounded airmen. It has ferried passengers and cargo to remote landings that were unreachable by conventional, straight-wing planes. Last week the helicopter added new range to its versatility. In a 3,400-mile hop, skip & jump, a pair of Sikorsky H19 helicopters landed in Prestwick, Scotland, after a leisurely 16-day flight from Westover Field, Mass. For the first time, rotary-wing aircraft had spanned the Atlantic...
Both had played fine golf to reach the final over the famed Prestwick course. But in the first part of the final, both lapsed into a duffer game. Stranahan repeatedly pounded into the rough, got into half a dozen bunkers and four traps. Jittery Harvie Ward unhappily flubbed his chances by missing six putts of less than five feet (one an 18-incher) in the first nine holes...
...London newspaper predictions of nonstop London-New York schedules of six hours. Until its range was improved, the Comet would not be able to make nonstop London-New York flights at all. De Havilland itself estimated that it would take twelve hours for the trip, counting refueling time at Prestwick and Gander. Lockheed's 43-passenger Constellation now makes...
Detectives got their first hold on the racket when a Canada-bound "Scotsman" at Prestwick airport, Scotland, pulled out a passport bearing the name of a criminal then in a Glasgow jail. Police arrested the masquerader, were soon hot on the trail of a passport forging and smuggling ring...
...Tansey got the latest weather report. A ground mist was hanging over Rineanna Field at Shannon. It had all but "socked in" the airdrome; the ceiling was at 500 feet, the minimum for night landings there. Perhaps the Star of Cairo might have to go to Prestwick, Scotland, or another alternate field. Anyhow, there was plenty of time to decide...