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...backers argue that a Mach 3 would be a radically new plane that would give the U.S. undisputed future leadership. There is also talk of a compromise Mach 2.3 or 2.4 plane that could later be developed into a Mach 3. Though the U.S. is getting off the runway late, it already knows quite a bit about what has to be done. The only large jet in "the free world that has logged any substantial supersonic flight time is General Dynamics' B-58. Boeing has 100 engineers working fulltime; at its Renton plant near Seattle on a supersonic project...
...Swissair Flight 227 to Zurich taxied onto the runway at Munich last week, it was followed closely by a black police limousine. Not until the Convair disappeared into the night did the plainclothesman inside the car return to headquarters to report that Georges Bidault, 63, former Premier of France and now self-styled operational chief of the terrorist Secret Army Organization, had left West Germany. For the first time since Bidault was traced to his hideaway in a rural villa last month, Bavaria's Minister of Interior Heinrich Junker breathed easily. Sighed he: "A heavy cross...
...flight is the world's longest nonstop passenger run in the world's largest transport. Once a week, an immense Russian turboprop TU-114 transport lifts from the runway of Havana's José Marti airport and points north on the 6,800-mile run to Moscow. Among the passengers aboard last week's flight was TIME'S Correspondent Edmund Stevens, the first Westerner ever to make the trip. His report...
...Broadway's most durable current hits, once wrote a play called Aubade. But he is not the sort of fellow who would make that mistake twice. His middle period, when he was about 21 a few months back, was notable for a three-acter called On the Runway of Life You Never Know What's Coming Off Next, a play that unfortunately contained its entire essence in the title and was never professionally produced. But now Kopit has prepared a new script for production next month off-Broadway, and Dad-wise he is only half a dozen picas...
Trimmed in chocolate brown and canary yellow, the stubby jetliner with the peculiar T-shaped tail lifted off the runway at the Boeing Co.'s Renton plant near Seattle on its successful maiden flight. The plane is the Trijet medium-range 727, roughly three-quarters as large as Boeing's 707 and powered by three fanjet engines mounted in the rear. It is also the only commercial jetliner now under development in the U.S.-and it may be the last. While U.S. airframe companies are all but giving up planemaking, European planemakers are pushing ahead with bold...