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Capital Airlines' President J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael flew into London to make a deal that revved up the British aircraft industry's sorely tried pride. Last week he ordered 15 more Vickers Viscount turboprop airliners (for $18 million), giving him a total order of 75, of which he has already received 29, all now in service on Capital's routes. Said Carmichael: "There has never been an airplane that has operated with greater dependability than the Viscount. The public likes Viscounts and we like them...
Ours Are Bigger. Khrushchev deployed his evidence with skill. All week long, three sleek Russian jet airliners whooshed in and out of London Airport on courier missions. He sent Soviet Plane Designer Andrei Tupolev to look at the Britannia, Britain's latest turboprop liner, and Tupolev emerged remarking: "An impressive airplane, but we are building a bigger turboprop, which will carry 170 passengers." He sent Soviet Atomic Expert Igor V. Kurchatov to Harwell to deliver a lecture that left British scientists much impressed (see SCIENCE...
...done too much "talking about tomorrow's jam instead of concentrating on today's bread and butter. The time has come to build more aircraft and fewer models. In my opinion, American jets will not be operating until well into the 19603, by which time the Britannia turboprop and the Comet IV will have been operating for years...
FIRST FOREIGN LINE to fly Lockheed's 410-m.p.h. turboprop Electra will be The Netherlands' KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, which has ordered twelve of the transports (total cost: $30 million) for delivery in late 1959. Lockheed now has 116 Electras on order, expects to sell more to European airlines...
...JETLINER will be designed by Convair as competition for Lockheed's turboprop Electra. A four-jet, 580-m.p.h. aircraft powered by General Electric J-79 engines, Convair's pure jet will be smaller than the 125-passenger Douglas DC-8 and Boeing 707, will aim at medium-range (up to 2,000 miles) routes. Projected delivery date: sometime...