Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind Sir Lionel's statement was a fantastic amount of painstaking work. The Comet G-ALYY (Yoke Yoke), that went into the sea near Naples on April 8, left no remains that could be analyzed, but when Comet G-ALYP (Yoke Peter) crashed on Jan. 10 off Elba, its fragments fell into fairly shallow water. Armed with underwater television cameras and special "grab" equipment, a flotilla of British naval salvage vessels and Italian trawlers scoured the bottom, about 500 ft. deep, and fished up the twisted fragments. In all, they got 70% of the structure...
...Hour after hour the loudspeakers screamed across the sea to the dug-in Nationalists that the Reds would take Quemoy by Oct. 15. In Peking, Defense Minister General Peng Teh-huai ordered his troops to "be constantly prepared for combat" and promised, "We shall assuredly free Formosa from the yoke of American imperialists...
Operated by South African Airways, a partner of BOAC, the Comet Yoke Yoke was on its regular scheduled flight from London to Johannesburg. Barely 16 days had elapsed since BOAC lifted the ban that had grounded its Comet fleet following the last fatal crash (TIME, Jan. 18), but Yoke Yoke's 21 passengers were brimming with confidence. Waiting for take-off at Rome's Ciampino Airport, one of the three Americans, a Massachusetts shoe-parts manufacturer named Ray Wilkinson, said to his companion: "This is progress. Sure, they've had accidents, but everything...
...perfect flying weather, the Comet took off. Thirty minutes later its radio advised the airport: "Air speed 360, altitude 26,000, making altitude." Nothing more was heard of Comet Yoke Yoke until the message flashed around the world: another Comet is down...
...Havilland was in the process of modifying its Comets to guard against this danger-adding armor-plated shields to prevent loosened blades from the turbine from being thrown into the fuel tanks, improving the "engine breathers," installing more fire detectors. These recent changes apparently made no difference in Yoke Yoke's case...