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...taken its licks early and is in a good competitive position to profit on jet sales from now on. The company also has plenty of cash ($35 million) and working capital ($154 million), and recently tied up with France's Sud-Aviation (TIME, Feb. 22) to market the twin-jet Caravelle, thus enabling itself to cover both the long-and short-range jet field...
...foreign competition last week, and by so doing put itself in position to pick up a pretty penny. In Manhattan, President Donald Douglas Jr. announced that it was joining with France's Sud-Aviation to sell Sud's up-to-80-passenger, 500 m.p.h., twin-jet Caravelle airliner in world markets. Douglas got exclusive sales rights in the U.S. and Latin America, plus parts of Asia and Africa. At first, all planes will be built in France, but when Douglas orders get big enough (more than 50), Douglas will make the Caravelle in the U.S. This means that...
...warriors, the Punjab. The Indian army officer sometimes appears to be the very, very model of the British tradition: he has probably attended Sandhurst, speaks with an Oxford accent, plays polo and cricket, wears a mustache and carries a swagger stick. The first-rate Indian air force uses British twin-jet Canberra bombers and French Mystere jet fighters -all obtained by purchase, since Nehru believes that military aid would compromise India's traditional neutrality...
...Farnborough Air Show, 50 miles southwest of London, British flyers put on a dazzling display for 8,000 foreign visitors last week. Fourteen Hawker Hunter jet fighters looped through a whisker-tight formation. Two twin-jet Scimitar fighter-bombers barreled in for a landing, folded their wings just in time to allow a third Scimitar to fly in head-on between them. But all the planes on display and the superb acrobatics could not hide the fact that Britain's aircraft industry is losing altitude fast. Even the empire-loving London Daily Express warned its readers...
Next morning De Gaulle took off in a twin-jet Caravelle for Algeria to sample the sentiments of the army. Pointedly skipping major cities (where he would have had to deal with intransigent French colons), he barnstormed army units throughout Algeria, hopping from place to place by helicopter and DC-3. He chatted with hundreds of officers and noncoms, ate all his meals with officers of colonel's rank or under. Often he would ask a local commander to come along for a confidential chat on a helicopter trip to the next stop. At Orleansville he had a long...