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...Bell Aircraft's X2, carried aloft by a mother plane, reached 126,000 ft. The previous world's record (unofficial) in ground-to-air flights-80,190 ft.-was made a fortnight ago by a French Trident...
Died. Charles Goujon, 45, topnotch French test pilot ("I'm thorough, obstinate, almost stubborn"), completing three years of tests on France's fastest (1,400 m.p.h. in level flight) rocket-and jet-powered interceptor plane, the Trident, when the Trident II mysteriously disintegrated in the air; over Melun-Villaroche, about 35 miles southeast of Paris...
...Morane-Saulnier craft flew Ambassador to the U.S. Maurice de Murville from Washington to New York in 35 minutes, setting a civil aviation record In pure research, France's large Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest (S.N.C.A.S.O.) is flying its Trident, a jet-and-rocket-powered interceptor, at supersonic speeds, while the tiny (400 workers) Leduc Co. has built an even more radical fighter with a needlelike plastic cockpit and a 143,000-lb.-thrust (at 621 m.p.h.) ramjet engine. Carried aloft on the back of a mother ship and released...
...Paris' Le Bourget airfield last week, a jet interceptor, the Mystère IV, buzzed the field at 650 m.p.h. not more than 15 feet off the ground. A tiny two-seater, the Minijet, scooted up & down at 200 m.p.h. Loafing about the field were the Trident, an experimental, needle-nosed plane that the French hope will reach speeds up to Mach 1.6 (1,156 m.p.h. at sea level), and the triple-purpose Vautour (ground-support fighter, all-weather interceptor, light bomber), with expected speeds of 650-plus m.p.h...
...president of Livorno's only stevedoring company, he controlled all shiploading. As president of Livorno's Communist-line General Labor Federation, he bossed all union members. As a Communist deputy, he represented Livorno-and Joe Stalin-in the Chamber of Deputies at Rome. Under his potent trident, only card-carrying Commies and their friends could get jobs on the waterfront. His name: Vasco Jaccoponi...