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Another jet-reversing system will be manufactured by Aerojet-General Corp. under agreement with the French owners of the patent. It has no moving parts, only a cylindrical stock of rings behind the end of the tailpipe. In normal flight, the gases pass through the center of the rings. When the pilot wants to stop quickly on landing, he opens a valve, and a blast of air from the engine's compressor shoots down a pipe running through the tailpipe and is released at about right angles into the center of the stream of gases. This diverts the gases...
Power Afloat. An inboard marine engine that its makers say delivers more power per pound than any other small marine engine was put on sale by Aerojet-General Corp.. Cincinnati, bossed by former Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. The engine weighs 160 Ibs.. develops 26.5 h.p.. and can push a 20-ft. boat, with four adults, at 30 m.p.h. Price...
Portable Powerhouse. A lightweight (101 Ibs.), four-cylinder, 25½-h.p. gasoline engine, which, its makers claim, packs more power per pound than other water-cooled engines, was put on the market by the Aerojet-General Corp., bossed by former Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. The engine is for industrial, farm and home workshop use. Price...
...Able) Kimball, 57, who resigned as Secretary of the Navy last January, became president of Aerojet-General Corp., a General Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary. No stranger to General Tire, Kimball joined the company after World War I, was executive vice president and general manager of Aerojet Engineering Corp. (which merged with Crosley Motors last March to become Aerojet-General) when he left for Washington...
Tennis Balls to Jets. During the war, General Tire made military equipment ranging from gas masks to barrage balloons; at war's end, it switched to tennis balls, hospital beds, washing-machine tubs and other civilian products. Bill O'Neil then bought control of California's Aerojet Engineering Corp., maker of rockets and Jato (jet-assisted-take-off units) (TIME, Jan. 1, 1951). Last year, he snapped up the West Coast's Don Lee radio network and the Mutual Broadcasting System, biggest in the nation...