Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). All the marvelous new ways that people will soon have at their beck and call to transport themselves from one place to another are discussed in "A Trip from Chicago...
...Brooklyn all the way to Le Bourget Airport-the first nonstop crossing of the North Atlantic by whirlybird (they were refueled en route). Britain and France also put their best fleet forward with striking new military and civilian aircraft and a full-scale model of their jointly developed supersonic transport, the Concorde. But it was the Russians who stole the show, simply by taking the wraps off space hardware-some of it a decade old-that they had never before displayed in the West...
Among the variety of new Russian jet liners they saw on display at Le Bourget, U.S. experts were most impressed by the potential of the YAK-40, a 23-passenger, tri-jet transport designed by Aeronautical Engineer Sergei Yakovlev, 27, son of famed Soviet Aircraft Designer Alexsandr Sergeevich Yakovlev, for whom earlier YAK planes were named. What he had in mind, said Yakovlev, was a replacement for the famous old DC-3. Yakovlev's workhorse jet has thick, high-lift wings, big flaps, a relatively slow cruising speed of 450 m.p.h. and fat, soft tires-enabling it to land...
...show was General Dynamics' swing-wing F-lll fighter, flown from the U.S. and shown for the first time abroad. No less anxious to unleash a spectacular were the Russians, who contributed to the show's remarkable catalogue of names and numbers with the YAK-40 jet transport, the turboprop AN-22 which can carry 720 passengers, and the 300-ton Vostok satellite...
...joint efforts, they are getting ready to compete with such U.S. giants as McDonnell Douglas, Boeing and Lockheed. "The Americans would like to have a monopoly on the aircraft industry," says Director van Meerten of Holland's Fokker, which has just test flown its new F28 twin-jet transport, "but we are here to tell them this...