Word: allisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fast Recovery. Only in emergencies does Curtice move in and take over. Soon after he became president, he stepped in to straighten out the Allison Division (aircraft engines), which was in trouble because it had been afraid to invest money in research and development unless armed forces orders were assured. By contrast, Competitor Pratt & Whitney had sunk millions in engine development...
...Engines Vice President Cyrus Osborn told Curtice that there were three alternatives for Allison: 1) continue as is, "which is ridiculous"; 2) get out of the business entirely; or 3) make the moves necessary to ensure leadership. Curtice said that he would "only be satisfied with leadership." Together Curtice and Osborn spent three months visiting military and airframe people, then laid out a $74 million investment to produce "a whole new family of aircraft engines...
Last week Curtice and Eastern Air Lines Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker jointly announced that Eastern's 40 new Lockheed Electra airliners, scheduled for service in 1958, will be powered by $26 million worth of Allison turboprop engines...
...McDonnell Aircraft Corp., have crashed; 21 others are lined up at St. Louis' Municipal Airport and will never fly; they will be used instead for research and mechanics' training. The remaining 29 that were made will require new jet engines, to be supplied by General Motors' Allison division, before they can be put into service. The Navy indicated that the failure of the building program was chiefly due to the fact that the Westinghouse engines were subject to breakdowns" and their "power was insufficient...
...SeaMaster. the first good-sized craft to test seagoing jet engines, is comparable in length and wing span to a big airliner. Its four Allison J71 turbojet engines with take-off afterburners can get it into the air with a 30,000-lb. payload and push it faster than 600 m.p.h. at 40,000-ft. altitude. These characteristics make it a medium bomber, although its Navy sponsors, for fear of antagonizing the Air Force's Strategic Air Command and the Navy's own airplane-carrier partisans, prefer to call it a "mine layer." Portable Base. If the SeaMaster...