Evening star. [volume], September 07, 1958, Page 20, Image 170

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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- L. ik* v >M madv A new breed of air liner, the giant >e/-propelled air
After years of research and testing, they re ready lincr carrying passengers across the United
States and overseas at speeds nearly double those of
for the takeoff. Coast-to-coast: four and a half hours. today's commercial planes.
To military airmen, jet speeds may be old stuff, but
New York to Paris: mvm hour.. Her. are th* answer* to quwtion.
_ , Here are answers to some questions everybody has
everybody's asking about the new age of travel been asking about the jet liners:
Q. How fast will they go?
n nma pu CTBIM A. Five hundred to 600 mph. That’s Los Angeles to
RALrn OlCin New York in four and one-half hours; New York to
Paris in seven hours. From New York it will be quicker
to go swimming in the English Channel than to drive
to Penobscot Bay, Me., for your dip. A jet liner from
New York will be over Bermuda in the time it takes a
y j/jlXsj’ | JL commuter to reach his office by train from an outlying
Q. How too* will jet timers be i» service?
14 9 2 -basSr A. The first of the jet liners to go into service will be
/ * the four-engined, 165-passenger Boeing 707, to be flown
/ X /;\ this fall across the United States by American Airlines
// \/ I \ // and across the Atlantic (about Nov. 1) by Pan American
A : / H" World Ainvays. Next year, the basically similar Douglas
/ i *\, X / | I \ V ,'BUi.A DC-8 will go into service. Both of these $5,000,000
/ \ V/ X , '‘WM.&S* • \ / \WSU§ 1 planes have been ordered in quantity over 400 of
I W\ . them costing some $2,000,000,000 —by most of the
/ \s \ / " 1 mc'o \ \yL worlds major airlines. And Convair is working fever-
Ijt, I 184 Q ishly to deliver its 615-mph, 100-passenger “880.”
\ S'* \ \ CL Are foreign commtries preparing jet liners?
V r\ \ \ jBA. Yes. The British are readying a fleet of Comet 4’s
y X for this fall and are working on the three-engined Bristol
\ y) '<3 ' ~A\ , \ “200,” design study for a short-range jet. In France, the
\ Caravelle, a 500-mile-an-hour twin jet, a prototype of
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Here Come The Jet}
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