Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twin-engined fighter swept San José the day after the invasion, chipping up the sidewalks; nine other towns were strafed, but no one was injured. Lacking fighters of her own, Costa Rica mounted a machine gun in the cargo door of a commercial DC-3 and sent the transport lumbering into the air in futile pursuit...
Britain's troubled aircraft industry last week got one more blow in a long series of wallops to British pride and pocketbook. British Overseas Airways Corp., the Empire's biggest airline, formally applied to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation for permission to buy 19 U.S.-built Douglas DC-7C airliners for its transoceanic routes. BOAC and its Chairman Sir Miles Thomas, who once placed their bets on the ill-fated Comet jet transports, now want a modified version of the piston-engined DC-7 of U.S. airlines, enlarged to carry 68 passengers nonstop across the Atlantic...
...BOAC had no choice. Ever since the war, Britons have dreamed of the day when British lines would be flying British planes around the world. But with the exception of Vickers' short-haul Viscount turboprop (TIME, Jan. 3), most of Britain's postwar transports, especially its long-range planes, have been expensive flops. Avro's huge, highly touted Tudor transport failed in a series of disastrous crashes; Saunders-Roe's immense, ten-engined Princess flying boat has been in the prototype stage since 1946, still needs better engines; Bristol's equally large Brabazon, designed...
...nonstop transatlantic flying, the line had counted on the Comet I's big sister, the Comet III. But its future is still clouded; safety modifications may keep the new jet off commercial routes until 1960. Another hope is the Bristol Britannia, a long-range, 340-m.p.h. transport with four turboprop engines. BOAC has poured $20 million into the project, ordered ten planes. But the Britannia, too, is a question mark. With little transport experience, Bristol is already 14 months behind schedule, will probably not deliver the first plane until 1960. Furthermore, BOAC has serious doubts whether the plane...
BOEING JET TRANSPORT prototype, with a total of 92 hours of test-flight time, has cruised considerably higher and faster than the 40,000 ft. and 550 m.p.h. first reported. The big four-jet plane has made one short flight at 634 m.p.h. and climbed to about...