Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point at Nicosia airport four days later, a British security officer quietly took Makarios into custody. In his flowing black robes the archbishop was led into the airport, past the Greek Airlines plane waiting to take him to Greece, to another corner of the tarmac where an R.A.F. Hastings transport plane was parked. Already in custody beside the Hastings were three other Cypriot clerics, including Kyprianos Themistok-leous Kyriakides, Bishop of Kyrenia. At 4:30 p.m. the Hastings took off for Kenya, where the Cypriots were transferred to H.M. Frigate Loch Fada, which set out for the Seychelles Islands...
Many airplanes, especially heavy-laden bombers, are launched by booster (jato) rockets whose powerful push gets them into the air without too long a take-off run. The rockets are expensive, whether they use liquid or solid fuel, so the West German Ministry of Transport asked jet-propulsion experts to evaluate hot-water rockets, a prewar German idea that never got a thorough tryout. Recently, Physicist Werner Michely told a meeting at Freu-denstadt that hot-water booster rockets look promising...
PLANE CHARTER will soon be as easy and inexpensive as renting a bus, truck or boat. Under a system set up by the Aircoach Transport Association, charter groups will no longer have to deal with scattered individual airlines, rarely pay expensive ferrying costs to fly empty planes back from outlying points. Instead, ACTA will act as a general agent for more than 30 nonscheduled lines, be able to pick the nearest available plane and charter it for as little as 2½? per passenger mile...
...Convair's delta-winged F-102 interceptor (the "Iron Dart"), slated for squadron service soon. Powered by a J-57, the rocket-carrying F-102 weighs as much as a DC-3 transport (25,200 lbs.), can climb to 40,000 ft. in less than five minutes, hit something like 1,000 m.p.h. in level flight at combat altitude...
...although originally planned for exclusive use by the Mental Hospitals Committee, will be at the disposal of all divisions of Brooks House. It will be used to drive volunteers to the mental hospitals, to transport tutors to the prisons, and will help in fund-raising campaigns...