THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1959.
PAGE SIX gets first peep at the Comet's
Big Brother
Servicing and Emergency Exit Door
Passenger Toilets
Emergency Exits
(2 per side):
Miscellaneous Stawnge
Forward Man Passenger Doar
Rear Passenger Cour
Servicing and Emergency Exit Door
Toilets
Miscellaneous Storage
COMET 41 111F7. 8IN, LONG,
CARRIES 78.
Cost of putting one new glant into the air: the wooden mock-up costs HK$8,000,000; developing the Rolls-Royce Conway engine about HK$320,000,000. HERE SHE IS-the Vickers VC10 jetliner,
tackled in Europe.
I went to get the first pictures of
her
ut
the
day.
And.
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you
can
bridge, Surrey,
this
biggest aircraft project ever
Wey-constructed
18 wooden tunnels with
high- other aeroplane to tust
out de- speed models and 10 signs and installations, low-speed ones.
Tests have into see, flight deck layouts
out and been carried Britain's Big Jet is furnishing schemes. It has engine intake performance, mightily impressive crea- taken them more than a airframe de-icing even tion. Unseen, but dramati- year tackling the main "ditching," cally symbolised, is the fuselage, wings, and rear- gigantic gamble she repre- engine mountings while the sents.
tailplane is built at Hurn, the full-scale 90 miles away. This is wooden mock-up, esential Led by Vickers's brilliant preliminary to production of managing director, the identical metal airliner George Edwards, for which jigs are now draughtsmen and already Vickers, manufacturer of the ial- being erected to meet the more than 1,000 technicians world-beating Viscount, is
vesting some HK$320 million of target maiden flight date of are working on the VC10. its own capital to tackle the summer 1961.
Over 2,000 hours of wind Vanguard turbo-prop and the VC10 jet as private ventures. Carpenters a skilled as tunnel work have been Boac will fork out HK$1,400
any
Such research is terri- fyingly expensive. The final cost of this wooden mock- alone will run out up around HK$8 mìljon. Sir TOO LATE ?
400
By PETER WOON The battle of
BOKING Y07: 1829T, LONG.
CARRIES - 150.
EDWARDS SIR GEORGE VICALES MANAGING DIRECTOR
Douglas DC8. At first sight it cose of looks like yet another Britain building the right acro- plane too late. One -more to hdd to the sorry list of aircraft which don't sell in large num- bers. To date the Viscount has been the only exception,
NEW PLAN
But Vickers believe the VC10 will be the right acroplane at the right time. They pin their faith
the on
rear-mounted engine design which will enable
the big jets
...how they
compare
for size
VICKERS VG-10 158rt. LONG, CARRIES 150,
a
can Sandys, is fast realising, has competitive delivery dates and Mast dramatic reduced costs. I only hope they are right, got to be done.
of a number of cure-allá pro- mir-
A shocking suggestion--or with spares, but Vickers will ther alrcraft to fly more For the truth is that our
one? Mr Sandys 19 bave to sell at least 55 more to
passengers more cheaply out of liners, from the Britannia to the posed to him is the suggestion realistic
And he break even.
airports which the 707 and DC8 Dart Herald, are not selling well that the Government should pick thinking about
the same time military aircraft projects that look like knows some such move may be At the best of times projects can barely serve. They con- and
The winners and underwrite very the only way of maintaining involving such sums must be Лdently claim improved safety demands have stumped
is having
large-scale production - per- Britain's prestige in the air. gambles. But this VC10 will be margins, greater passenger com- aircraft industry
huys 100 aircraft,
Which, however you look at coming Inta service in 1963- fort, better
tech- tough time. engineering
As well Something,
longer it is a vital business, This would provide FOUR YEARS after its Amer- niques, and higher operational in the country have completed in 13 different million for 35 of the big jets can rivals, the Boeing 707 and capabilities.
Minister of Aviution, Mr Dun production runs enabling fully as an expensive one.
Hyper-kinetic children
just need a pill
New York.
A PILL has been found for children who fidget. In a study of 40 over-active children, the pill succeeded in calming down 31 and transforming them into reasonably happy and industrious scholars.
*The scientiäe name for this type of Adgels in hyper-kinetie impulse disorder," said Dr Hunter H. Comly, director of the Children's Centre of Detroli, who conducted the tests,
"Our investigations indicate
QUOTE
that many such chlidren suffer by the Very Rev. John
temporarily from brain injury-- often mild probably caused before, during or trimmediately after birth," he said.
Big help
There is evidence that at least two per cent of the school age population in the United States present problem between Ave and 11.
"In kindergarten,
Waddington, Provost of Bury St Edmunds Cathedral:-
O İnkuy of GUE clever young people seem to think that no intelligent person could have much use for religion, a myth encouraged by the Intel- lectual types who appear on the B.B.C. Brains Tezzet.
Dr F. Lawrence Smith, this-By
Carshalton, the ages of medical officer at
Surrey, in his yearly report:
【OTHING cún be more osion- Isted to wreck what could
such
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child, even though normally and should be a happy marriage intelligent, is distractable rest- than a young couple being con
demned to live with their in- less, impulsive, very expily trus- trafed and his 'noods fluctuate laws.
unpredictably from moment to moment or day to day," Dr Comly's report noted.
-by Major M. 3. 6. Jewell,
chairman of Upton-on-Severn,
Although the new pills Worcestershire, magistrates, Gided some of these children | during Д careless drtying much more than others, the case:
you make TOYOT
testa indicated that "I the TOWEVER BALO medicine helpe, it helps con- lil the ronds you will siderably," tie wald,
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