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...ahead in jets when it took over development of Sir Frank Whittle's first workable jet. The company was one of the first in turboprops with its Dart engine (1,780 h.p.), which is a main reason for Vickers' spectacular success (total sales: 353 planes) with its Viscount airliner (TIME, Jan. 3, 1955). As for Rolls's pure jet engines, its latest Avon turbojet is rated at better than 10,000 Ibs. of thrust, not only powers a wide range of military craft in Britain, but is also reaching out for civilian markets, will...
BRITISH COMET JETLINERS have been ordered by Capital Airlines, which is doing well with British Vickers Viscount turboprops. Capital will pay $53 million for 14 de Havilland Comet IVs, bigger (74 seats), faster (545 m.p.h.) versions of ill-fated Comet I. Main reason for Capital's move: U.S. jets will be too big, too costly to operate along Capital's medium-range airline routes. Planned delivery date...
...need one in the theater." Noel, his son by his first wife, was an Olympic skier, now plays the guitar as an entertainer in European nightclubs. In London. Harrison moves confidently at any level of society; his sister married David Maxwell Fyfe, who was Home Secretary, and is now Viscount Kilmuir, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and a member of the Tories' top command. Five years ago Harrison built a villa overlooking the fishing village of Portofino on the Italian Riviera, where Rex fished, swam, sped about in speedboats. But he was always restless there...
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...
Capital bought the Viscounts in 1954 because it had to have planes that could match the big, swift DC-6s and DC-7s of its rivals on the crowded New York-Washington-Chicago routes. Yet because it has few long, nonstop hauls, Capital could not operate big planes as economically as other lines. The medium-range Viscount seemed to be the answer, although, as the first foreign-made plane to fly in U.S. airlines, there was a question how it would stand...