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Britain last week rolled out its first truly supersonic jet. Built by English Electric, maker of the Canberra twin-jet bomber, the new P. 1 is a stubby, delta-winged interceptor, with a double-barreled Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire power plant turning out a total of 20,000 Ibs. of thrust. All English Electric will say is that the plane can fly faster than sound in level flight, and that 20 have been ordered to short-cut the time lag between prototype and production models. At the news, most of Britain's newspapers went all out, claimed speeds...
...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...
Rockets & Autos. That sort of confidence was nothing new to 64-year-old Thomas Octave† Murdoch Sopwith. He is master of the Empire's biggest aircraft, engine and auto complex: the Hawker Siddeley Group. Its twenty-five divisions and 60,000 workers make everything from air frames for fighters and bombers to rockets, engines and luxury Siddeley automobiles for the dowager trade.* It has ?40 million in assets, 31 plants scattered throughout Britain and Canada, and last year netted ?2.6 million after taxes...
...spite of Hawker-Siddeley's size, Tom Sopwith runs it by remote control. He spends most of his time hunting, fishing and boating because he thinks better out in the open than behind a desk. Though he goes to the office only once or twice a month, and leaves most administrative details to Managing Director Sir Frank Spriggs, 57, Sopwith makes the big policy decisions himself, chewing over the problems while tramping the moors of his 20,000-acre estate, in Yorkshire...
...thrust of 7,200 Ibs., or 1,000 Ibs. more than Pratt & Whitney's improved Nene. Britain's Gloster Meteor 8 fighter, powered by two Sapphires, reportedly can climb from take-off to 40,000 ft. in four minutes. Wright also was licensed to build Armstrong Siddeley's best turboprop engines, the "Python," the "Mamba" and the "Double Mamba." In addition, the two companies agreed to "exchange knowledge" on research, technical information and products for seven years...