AMERICA LAGGING
High-speed Jet Airliners - GOVERNMENT FINANCE URGED WASHINGTON, Rec. 8 p.m. May 8. The challenge of high-speed British and Canadian jet airliners brought Government officials to Congress today to urge financial aid for the United States aircraft industry. Britain and Canada were not yet carrying passengers in their 500 m.p.h. aircraft, they said, but experimental flight had produced good results. America’s fastest passenger planes travelled at only 300 m.p.h., while jet, their successors, were still a dream. Leading officials of the Commerce and .Defence Departments and the Civil Aeronautics Board supported a Bill to authorise 12,500,000 dollars a year for testing jet and other new transport planes. In New York today, the chairman of British European Airways, Lord Douglas, said BEA expected to become the world’s first jet airline by 1952. He said BEA had ordered 25 turbo-prop Vickers Viscount planes to reach that objective. He predicted that all airlines 10 years from now would be using planes powered by turbo-jet or “pure jet’’ engines.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27385, 10 May 1950, Page 7
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