Word: twinjet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aboard four West Germans and a Briton (as well as 16 Chinese Communist officials) when it crashed 380 miles east of Moscow on a flight from Peking to Moscow, killing all 65 aboard. It was the first acknowledged crash of Russia's pride and joy, the Tupolev twinjet, since it went into general service two years...
...that cracked up on a takeoff, all of Egypt's bombers had escaped to other Arab lands. In addition, said he, some of his MIG fighters had taken refuge in Syria. Among the fighters that he had packed off to Syria, Nasser revealed, were some of the new twinjet, supersonic MIG 17s. "Nobody knew we had any 17s," he boasted, "until one day early in the fighting, when three of them were surprised near an airfield in the Canal Zone. The MIGs turned, shot down three [French] Mysteres and drove off the others with no losses...
...SUPERSONIC BOMBER will be built by North American Aviation (F86 Sabre, F-100 Super Sabre) for U.S. Navy. North American has $86 million development contract for 1,000 m.p.h., twinjet, A3J carrier-based bomber...
...McDonnell's twinjet, supersonic Voodoo (TIME, Dec. 6), was de signed as a bomber escort, but tests were a surprise, showed that the Voodoo was an excellent all-round fighter. Production of the F101 will be greatly increased...
Four years ago, Test Pilot John Derry became the first Briton to pass the speed of sound and live to tell about it (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948).* Last week, at Britain's annual Farnborough Air Show, Derry was flying a De Havilland DH-110, a twinjet, all-weather fighter. Before 120,000 spectators, including his young wife, Pilot Derry climbed to more than eight miles and dived, jets screaming, straight toward the crowd. Down he flashed at more than 700 m.p.h. When he leveled off, the double thunderclap of his shock waves-palpable as ocean breakers-crashed against...