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...look at the Soviet liner were not quite as impressed as the commentators. On its 1,564-mile flight from Moscow the airplane averaged 440 m.p.h., and its top air speed, they said, might be 100 m.p.h. higher. This would put it in the range of Britain's Comet and the U.S.'s Boeing and Douglas jet liners, but well short of the U.S.'s B-47 bomber (600 m.p.h...
British experts concede that hardy Russian passengers, having no better choice, may put up with oxygen masks, but they cannot see how an airplane that requires such an antiquated procedure can become competitive outside the Soviet Union-as Moscow has announced that it shall be. (The Comet has an 8,000-ft. pressure in the cabin while flying at 40,000 ft.) Additional pressurizing to make the TU-104 comfortable for its passengers would require considerable redesigning and perhaps a damaging amount of additional weight and additional stress on the air frame...
...much more is known about Sharaku. He simply appeared for a moment, brilliant and unexpected as a comet, in the rich, slowly circling heaven...
Great Britain has a pure jetliner capable of flying around the world to a regular timetable. In 1958, or soon after, we shall have the Comet IV, capable of flying regularly and economically on both transatlantic and Commonwealth routes. The R.A.F. has the Comet II in use as a regular military jet transport...
...Comet disasters cost Britain upwards of $30 million. Another plane-the Bristol Brabazon-was designed to carry 100 passengers nonstop across the Atlantic, but it turned into a Rube Goldberg nightmare. Four other big airliners-the Armstrong Whitworth Apollo turboprop, the Handley Page Hermes, the Avro Tudor and the $6.4 million Vickers 1000-also had little success and were scrapped...