Word: fanjet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stubby jetliner with the peculiar T-shaped tail lifted off the runway at the Boeing Co.'s Renton plant near Seattle on its successful maiden flight. The plane is the Trijet medium-range 727, roughly three-quarters as large as Boeing's 707 and powered by three fanjet engines mounted in the rear. It is also the only commercial jetliner now under development in the U.S.-and it may be the last. While U.S. airframe companies are all but giving up planemaking, European planemakers are pushing ahead with bold new models that threaten to unseat the U.S. from...
...Convair backed out of the commercial jet business with the 880 fiasco, it might have held its losses to perhaps $100 million. Instead, in an attempt to recoup its 880 losses, Convair decided to build a long-range jet, the 990, which, by using the then new fanjet engine, would fly faster (635 m.p.h.) than any comparable commercial jet. To save lead time, Convair skipped making a prototype, with the result that when the first 990s came off the production line, they could not fly at the guaranteed speed-and General Dynamics was forced to cut the sale price...