Word: siddeley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engine exhaust. The Curtis-Wright X-19 has four tillable engines on the tips of two stubby wings. The Bell X-22A has four tiltable propellers in circular ducts. Neither plane has yet completed successful tests, but two years ago the British were already flying the Hawker Siddeley P-1127, which has a single jet engine with 13,500 lbs. of thrust. During takeoff, the engine's exhaust gases are diverted downward, exerting enough thrust to lift the airplane off the ground. At cruise altitude, the exhaust is switched to the rear and the plane flies in normal...
...Hansa 320 last week made its maiden flight, will go into production in early 1965. Italy's PD-808, a joint effort by Piaggio, the maker of the famed Vespa motor scooter, and the Douglas Aircraft Co., will undergo test flights in June. Britain's Hawker Siddeley will deliver its first DH-125 jet to Krupp in August, has orders from 13 more corporate customers...
Moreover, they are straining hard to add 12% more power to the Concorde's Bristol Siddeley engines and to enlarge its Sud-Aviation wings so that the plane can fly as far as New York-Frankfurt. Even with those hurry-up changes, it would not be able to reach Rome or to speed up to Mach 3. Reason: its designers are committed to building it out of aluminum, which warps and melts at the higher speed, instead of waiting to master the techniques of working with tougher titanium, used...
Married. Fredericka Ann (''Bobo'') Sigrist, 23. jet-set heiress to a British aircraft (Hawker-Siddeley) fortune; and Kevin Donovan McClory. 38. Irish-born English movie producer, who was associate producer with Michael Todd of Around the World in 80 Days: in a Roman Catholic ceremony after church annulment of her first marriage following a civil divorce; in Nassau...
...finishing up doctorates at Cambridge this spring, seven are going to the U.S. Birmingham Chemical Engineer John T. Davies reports that six of his ten researchers left for the U.S. last year. One Glasgow University laboratory team emigrated en masse, and so did five senior aeronautical engineers from Hawker Siddeley's advanced-projects group. Says one Oxford don: "Usually people are so anxious to get to America that recruiters don't have to work very hard...