Capital Airways puts its first Vickers Viscount 40-passenger airliner into revenue service, being flown on the airline’s Washington, D.C.,-to-Chicago route. Capital is the first U.S. carrier to purchase the Viscount, the world’s first turboprop-powered airliner, and this flight marks the first time since World War I that a British-built aircraft is being flown in regular service over the United States.
Facing competition from fast-growing startups, Lockheed Martin is speeding up production of an “affordable, scalable” hypersonic glide body, dubbed the Next Generation Glide Body, the firm said in a June 24 release.