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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...
Rotor-lifted aircraft, able to take off and land from rooftops, parks or squares in the heart of the biggest cities, are already eliminating that most exasperating aspect of fixed-wing air transport, the long surface trip to outlying airports. The Belgian airline, Sabena, is operating a helicopter service between Brussels, Bonn, Lille, Maastricht and Rotterdam. Helicopter services are carrying passengers and mail in and around New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. City councils all over the U.S. have accepted the theory that the helicopter will not only replace the DC-3 on air feeder lines but may augment...
BELGIUM'S Sabena Airlines, which decided to bypass Shannon, Ireland in routing transatlantic flights, quickly changed its mind. American tourists, accustomed to picking up Irish whisky at Shannon, protested so loudly that Sabena rescheduled the refueling stop...
BELGIUM'S Sabena airlines began the world's first scheduled international helicopter service between Brussels and Rotterdam, soon will extend the service to Bonn, Cologne and Lille...