Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whom are no older than twenty-eight. The four are Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, and they have devised a series of satiric sketches--which they themselves perform--that razz the bejesus out of the Establishment, the Church, coal miners, pansies, the London Transport Board, Ludwig Beethoven, African nationalists, the Bomb, Harold Macmillan, World War II, William Shakespeare, and sundry other subjects of similar import and relevance to modern existence. The tone is radical and very youthful (although not doctrinaire in any way--probably the nearest thing to a party label that could be pinned...
Over the murky North Atlantic one night last week, the engines of a Super Constellation coughed and sputtered. One failed, then a second, then a third. At last, some 500 miles off the coast of Ireland, Pilot John D. Murray of the chartered Flying Tiger transport radioed the message: "One engine left. Preparing to ditch...
Some 200 Czech-trained Cuban pilots are now equipped with 25 MIG-15s, 45 MIG-17s, and 20 supersonic MIG-19s. Converted transport pilots have taken over the controls of 24 recently-delivered M14 combat helicopters, 20 AN2 biplanes and eight twin-engined Ilyushin transports...
...white-robed Shinto priests performed intricate purification ceremonies, a potbellied turboprop transport rolled out of a hangar at Nagoya's Komaki Airport, taxied down a runway and roared aloft. An hour later, when the plane set back down at Komaki, a waiting throng of businessmen and Japanese air force brass broke into exultant banzais. The YS 11, first Japanese-designed commercial transport to be built since World War II, had completed its maiden flight...
...Super Caravelle is expected to cost in the neighborhood of $560 million. Some British planemakers say that the money would be better spent increasing the all-weather reliability of existing subsonic aircraft. But with U.S. planemakers working toward a Mach 3 airliner and Russian competition in supersonic air transport only a matter of time, BAG and Sud Aviation argue that the Super Caravelle is needed to assure Europe a continuing role in the long-haul civil aviation industry...