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Latest entry in the VTOL (Vertical take-off and landing) competition is the Bell X-14, which achieves vertical flight in a horizontal flying attitude by means of a Venetian blind. The X-14 has two Armstrong Siddeley jet engines that give more than 3,500 lbs. of thrust, their hot gas shooting out horizontally under the fuselage. When the X-14 is rigged to take off vertically, a system of vanes like a Venetian blind deflects the gas downward. The thrust, acting upward, lifts the craft off the ground...
...delta-wing Mirage is powered by two 2, 300-lb.-thrust Viper engines, designed by Armstrong Siddeley and made by Dassault. The plane carries a rocket with 3,500-lb. thrust for extra bursts of speed, can take off or land in less than 1,000 yards. It weighs less than five tons (v. eight tons for the Mystère), but it is sturdy enough to operate out of rough fields. The Mirage has a price tag of $300,000, about two-thirds the cost of the Myst...
Your article gives belated praise to the Viscount and to the Rolls-Royce Conway and Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire jet engines. But what about the license agreements in the U.S. for eight other British power plants ? . . . Your article does not mention the hundreds of smaller feeder aircraft. It is silent on the many military aircraft that have been supplied in a steady stream to our own R.A.F. and foreign air forces throughout the world...
Viscounts & Growth. Britain has had some successes. The Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire jet engine is'so good that Curtiss-Wright makes it in the U.S. under license...
...bigger dividends (up 20% in 1954) and high earnings, London's bull market was fattened up last year by some $900 million worth of new capital pouring into the market v. $500 million in 1953. Among the biggest price gains: British Petroleum (formerly Anglo-Iranian), up 144%; Hawker Siddeley aircraft, up 90.6%; Unilever, up 72%; Rolls-Royce...