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With jets athunder, a new de Havilland Comet III, successor to the ill-starred Comet I, took off from Hatfield, north of London last week and roared 11.440 miles to Sydney, Australia in record flying time: 24 hr. 23 min.. for an average speed of about 475 m.p.h. All Britain hailed the flight as a national triumph...
Last week, as the applause over the Comet showed, many were still playing what BOAC's Sir Miles himself once condemned as "the merry game of brochure-manship"-covering up basic deficiencies with torrents of pressagentry and hopeful prediction. Despite its good flight, the Comet III is but a prototype of a prototype that is to fly sometime in 1958, will be both slower, smaller and shorter in range than Douglas' DC-8 or Boeing's 707 jet transports...
...Spencer, who patterned the Virgin May after his counsin, a milkmaid, it seems perfectly natural that angels in their visitations should call on Sarah Tubb, whom Spencer remembers vividly when "she knelt right down in the street at the time there was a thing called Halley's comet." On the day of the Resurrection, Spencer paints the whole Cookham churchyard opening up as the dead come forth. In one version Spencer portrays himself on judgment morn, leaning against a tombstone, his work apparently done...
...London the Ministry of Supply announced the canceling of the R.A. F. contract for the Vickers-Armstrongs Type 1,000 jet transport, the jet which British planemakers hoped would compete with Boeing and Douglas. The only jet transport now abuilding for commercial use is de Havilland's Comet Four, scheduled for delivery about the same time as the Boeing. But the Comet is slower, smaller and has a shorter range (no nonstop transatlantic flights...
...case, Pan Am's move into jets will be a big factor in establishing U.S. commercial supremacy in jet transports. The only competitor has been Great Britain. But Britain's jet development has been so set back by the Comet's three crashes that cost 99 lives that even British Overseas Airways Corp. now may be forced to buy 707s or DC-8s to meet its competition across the Atlantic...