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...worked so well that Boeing engineers are making startling predictions for the 727. It will "come over the fence," say the engineers, at about 130 m.p.h., and will touch down at 115 m.p.h. This is about 20% slower than present jetliners and almost as slow as old-fashioned prop-driven planes. Instead of requiring two-mile runways, says Boeing, the 727, which can cruise for 1,700 miles at speeds up to 600 m.p.h., will spread its expanded wings on small airfields and will not require vast jetports far from the cities they serve...
SUBSONIC JET PLANE will be developed by the Air Force to transport troops and cargo anywhere in the world. The plane, for which Congress approved $50 million for design studies, will be designated the SOR-182 and replace the Military Air Transport Service's aging prop-driven...
...streaking altitudes on Instrument Flight Rules. Moving their transparent markers ("shrimp boats") alongside little blips, they warn of nearby traffic, give directions, order changes in headings and altitudes. If a plane is a 550-m.p.h. jet, the controller gives the pilot 100 miles' clear space ahead, 100 behind; prop-driven planes get 35 miles. Through controllers and towers, miles of Teletype wire and a host of electronic machines, schedules are juggled, flights shifted, with split-second decision and never-ending attention to detail...
...SERVICE from West Coast to London, Hawaii and Tokyo will be started by Pan American World Airways soon, with new 5,000-mile-range Boeing 707s. Jet time from San Francisco to London over Polar route: 11 hr. 20 min. v. 23 hr. 20 min. on prop-driven...
...school contestants, the two top prizes in the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search went last week to a pair of precocious seniors from Newton (Mass.) High School. For his $121 cyclotron that can smash atoms, Reinier Beeuwkes III, 17, won the first prize, a $7,500 scholarship. For his prop-driven flying platform, Yugoslav-born Dushan Mitrovich, 18, won the second prize, a $6,000 scholarship...