British Jets Are Challenge To U.S. Airliners
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. American aviation experts fear the United States will lose its leadership in the field of civil transport planes to BriUin’s jet-powered airliners. Mr. Delos Rentzel, the Civil Aeronautics Administrator, said this in tesftmony before the Senate Commerce Committee. Mr. Rentzel said the future of American-built aircraft had been challenged by the successful maiden flight of the British-built De Havilland Comet, the world’s first jetpowered airliner. Unless other nations quickly developed competitive aircraft, the Comet would be the world’s fastest air transport.
Mr. Rentzel also said that Britain was leading the world in the. use of combination turbo-propeller powered aircraft.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23024, 15 August 1949, Page 5
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