Word: havilland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stars of the show were Britain's newest jet engines. De Havilland's Gyron has 15,000 Ibs. of static thrust, is claimed to be the most powerful in the world. The Rolls-Royce Conway, a "bypass jet" with 13.000 Ibs. of thrust (TIME, July 4), was shown at Farnborough for the first time...
...minute arrangements for an aristocratic cruise, slated to sail from Venice next week to nose about Greece and its islands. On the celebrity-jammed roster of some 120 guests: Scotland's Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta, Prince Aly Khan, Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland. Conspicuously uninvited: the Duchess of Windsor, once one of Elsa's best friends, but now (it's mutual) one of her severest critics. To discourage her seagoing party from completely wasting its substance in riotous living, Elsa was also charting a full course of culture-vulture activities, including...
Married. Olivia de Havilland, 38, two-time Oscar-winning cinemactress (To Each His Own, The Heiress); and Pierre Galante, 45, writer for the French picture magazine Paris-Match; she for the second time (her first: Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, one-shot author of the novel Delilah), he for the first; in Ivoy-le-Marron, France...
Britain last week decided to pin its jetliner hopes on the Comet. On the heels of a final report placing the blame for two Comet I crashes off Italy on metal fatigue, de Havilland announced that it will go ahead with construction of the Comet II and III. They will have such improvements as thicker skins, oval instead of rectangular windows, to correct the faulty design that caused the Comet I to explode in midair. De Havilland set no delivery dates, but the first plane will probably not be ready before...
Even so, it is liable to be a long, hard climb. Though none of the foreign airlines, which have 26 Comet II's and Ill's on order, have canceled out, de Havilland will have to renegotiate each contract again, and it has 20 Comet II's already substantially completed in its hangars. To guard against too heavy a loss. Minister Boyd-Carpenter said that "a number of Comet II's in a modified version are being ordered for delivery to the R.A.F. . . as early as the work involved allows...