Word: electras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HUGE NAVY ORDERS are coming for Lockheed's turboprop Electra. In hot race, it won Navy's nod to be prime land-based antisubmarine plane in jet age. Insiders expect Navy to buy some 100 Electras for about $4,000,000 each over next few years, figure Navy will eventually replace all its 500 Lockheed Neptune antisub fighters with Electras...
...costs. Last week President Boutelle was almost halfway home, with 95 orders from 14 small feeder lines. The first production model is scheduled to be delivered to West Coast Airlines (which has ordered six) in June, to be hauling passengers by early September, thus beating Lockheed's bigger Electra as the first U.S.-built turboprop in scheduled operation. By year's end Fairchild hopes to have at least 40 planes, built under license from The Netherlands' Fokker...
...LOCKHEED ELECTRA turboprop transport, on order by nine airlines, looks better and better. Prototype, which flew 56 days ahead of schedule, has hit nearly 460 m.p.h. in level flight, 25 m.p.h. faster than expected, normally lands in 1,900 ft., well under guaranteed airport performance...
...stormy night. Yet death and destruction are sidetracked. Though Erika has a miscarriage, she survives her night in the snow; Anatol and the unsuspecting Vanessa depart for a new life in Paris. In a familiar living-death type of ending (recalling Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra and Henry James's Washington Square), the big house is shut again, the mirrors are covered once more, and Erika sits brooding before the fire: "Now it is my turn to wait...
...plane on longer runs to replace the TU-IO4. For ranges up to 3,000 miles, Aeroflot has shown off prototypes of two 400-m.p.h., four-engined turboprops - Ilyushin's 100-passenger IL-18 Moskva and Antonov's 126-passenger Ukraina-that resemble Lockheed's Electra, now being test-flown. Aeroflot's highest hopes for capturing a large chunk of the foreign market rest on Tupolev's four-engined turboprop, swept-wing TU-114, a double-decked, pressurized behemoth, twice the size of a Super Constellation. The Reds claim that it is the world...