Word: tu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third entry in the SST race-Russia-is staying silent about the price and progress on its TU-144. Chances are that the plane is costing the Soviets a lot more than they anticipated. But like the U.S., France and Britain, the U.S.S.R. undoubtedly knows that it cannot turn its back on an aircraft that offers a potential $50 billion market...
...Canada, flying one round trip each week, will use DC-8s. On foreign flights, Aeroflot now uses huge 170-passenger, two-deck TU-114 turboprops, but for the Montreal run it may inaugurate the new 200-passenger Ilyushin 62s, which have four engines mounted in pods at the tail, as well as a fancy jet-age decor replacing the Victorian look of older Russian airplanes...
...time to lose if it wants to capture the majority of the 800-plane world market for supersonic transports. The Anglo-French Concorde is moving on schedule toward a target of commercial service by 1971, and Russia's TU-144 may beat the Concorde by several months. The later-starting American SST will offer several advantages over the European models. It will be one-third larger, carry nearly twice as many passengers and, thanks to its heat-resistant titanium skin, fly faster. The Concorde is limited to 1,450 m.p.h. by its aluminum body, but it will be cheaper...
...didn't he say that the Concorde will be first? Engineers from B.A.C.'s partner, Sud-Aviation of France, recently came back from a trip to the Soviet Union with word that Russia's 1,550-m.p.h. TU-144 transport probably will be in the air some time before the Concorde's maiden flight in February...
...took him seven years?years in which ostensibly he lived the life of an ordinary, if exceptionally austere, bonze. Abstaining from meat, cigarettes and liquor, he lived in a cramped cell in Hué's Tu Dam pagoda, rising with the "first sun on a man's hand," spending a third of his waking day in prayer, a third in activity, a third in contemplation of his mistakes. Twice he served as president of the Hué Buddhist Association, his stints interrupted by a total absence from public view from 1959 to 1961. His life has been filled with such disappearances...