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...disaster (TIME, Dec. 26). The story was etched on the metal tape of the crashproof flight recorder that the DC-8-like all jets-carried under federal regulations. Translated, the taped squiggles showed that the jet, bound for New York's Idlewild terminal from Chicago, made a steep descent from 14,000 to 5,000 ft. as it approached the Preston holding area in New Jersey (see map), sped through Preston on instruments at speeds as high as 360 knots (v. standard jet holding speed of 220 knots). At that speed, it closed the distance between Preston...
From examination of the debris, investigators found that the jet was in a 50° bank to the right at the moment of impact-so steep a bank that it seemed as if the jet pilot had seen the TWA plane and had tried to turn away. The jet's No. 4 engine, the federal men found, crashed through the Connie's cockpit, sucking human tissue into its compressor chamber. The engine was found with the Connie's wreckage on Staten Island...
Trumpets from the Steep, by Diana Cooper. Lady Diana has the delightful ability to make real people seem like Waugh characters, but there is a touch of sadness to the third volume of her autobiography, in which the brightest of the Bright Young People of the '20s say goodbye to her generation...
TRUMPETS FROM THE STEEP (268 pp.)-Diana Cooper-Houghfon Mifflin...
...test run, San Francisco's new Fire Engine 14 surged effortlessly up the steep streets of Nob Hill. On the flat, it accelerated from a cold start to 50 m.p.h. in 45 sec. (v. 60 sec. for older models). The new American-La France Turbo Chief pumper, which was undergoing performance tests in San Francisco last week, got its impressive pep from a gas turbine engine, the first ever used in a fire truck, and the latest of the expanding uses of gas turbines. Although gas turbines first came of age in turboprop planes, they promise to have...