Word: sabena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ROUTES will be granted to more foreign airlines. State Department has tentatively decided to recommend that CAB permit Belgium s Sabena to fly beyond New York to San Francisco...
...order for five 707s packing Pratt & Whitney J75 engines (v. smaller J57s on earlier 707s), will use them on both overseas and domestic runs. Sales score to date: 69 of Douglas' DC-8s, 60 of Boeing's 707s, including an option for five from Belgium's Sabena Airlines...
HELICOPTER TRAVEL will get a boost from New York Airways and Belgium's Sabena Airlines. Inter-airport traffic in the New York area is growing so fast that N.Y.A., now operating five helicopters, will order seven new twelve-passenger, 105-m.p.h. Sikorsky S-58 whirlybirds, double its annual passenger capacity. To expand its local helicopter service between eight European cities (TIME, May 16), Sabena will order eight new Sikorskys...
Many of Leopoldville's 20,000 Belgians were not prepared in advance to be much impressed by their young king. "That infant," snapped one sun-helmeted businessman as he watched Baudouin's arrival in a Sabena DC-6 airliner. The colonists had seen too many prim, unsmiling photographs of the bespectacled King, watchfully flanked by his father, ex-King Leopold, and his purposeful stepmother. But a change seemed to have come over shy King Baudouin the moment he left Brussels. He became relaxed, friendly and informal-a man on his own. On the plane, he insisted on getting...
HELICOPTER SERVICE between airports and cities in Europe is spreading rapidly. Since Sabena has made a hit with its service in Brussels, British European Airways will start a service in London, using Sikorsky S 53 helicopters to whirl six passengers from London Airport to midcity in 22 minutes instead of the 70 it takes...