Word: roe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around the world. But with the exception of Vickers' short-haul Viscount turboprop (TIME, Jan. 3), most of Britain's postwar transports, especially its long-range planes, have been expensive flops. Avro's huge, highly touted Tudor transport failed in a series of disastrous crashes; Saunders-Roe's immense, ten-engined Princess flying boat has been in the prototype stage since 1946, still needs better engines; Bristol's equally large Brabazon, designed to carry 100 passengers across the Atlantic, never got into production, was finally broken up and sold for scrap. And De Havilland...
...Coanda Effect. Frost, who lives in Toronto with his wife and son, helped to design wartime gliders, later the Vampire jet and DH-108 tailless jet. As chief design engineer for special projects at A.V. Roe Canada. Ltd. (part of Britain's famed Hawker-Siddeley aircraft group), he worked on Canada's first home-built jet fighter, the CF-100. Meanwhile, in a top-secret screened area at Avro's Maiton plant, he designed flying saucers-at least one 40-ft. mockup, with a flattened end and spindly undercarriage. This model, quickly nicknamed he "Praying Mantis...
...whole team had a great year in '53 and there will certainly be some slumps from that peak. The Dodgers' main strong-point this season will be a greatly-improved pitching staff, headed by big Don Newcombe, returned from the Army, followed by flashy Carl Erskine, Meyer, Loes, Podres, Roe, and a host of good young pitchers...
Reason Enough. In Detroit, Mrs. Dorothy Roe got a divorce after she testified that her husband Gene inspected the kitchen garbage before she threw it away, bawled her out if he found the potato peelings too thick. In Indianapolis, Mrs. Maryellen Dillman got a divorce after she testified that her husband carefully watched wrestling on TV, afterwards practiced the holds...
...NATO planemakers develop a lightweight jet fighter-bomber, small enough to operate from short airstrips close to the lines, yet big enough to carry a tactical Abomb. The three most likely candidates: Britain's Folland "Gnat" (TIME, Aug. 3), a new delta-wing jet designed by A. V. Roe & Co., and a light French plane, the "Baroudeur," that can reportedly nudge the speed of sound...