Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...COMMERCIAL JET will be built by Douglas for short to intermediate (up to 1,500 miles) range, and 1963 delivery. The DC-9 will have four Pratt & Whitney turbo-fan engines, carry 68 first-class passengers at 600 m.p.h. Probable delivery price...
...intake of a jet engine is like an unimaginably powerful vacuum cleaner, can snatch surprisingly heavy things right off the runway. Pliers, wrenches, cigarette lighters, coins and nails have all been found in jet innards, and even the least of these can sometimes do serious damage. So far, no jet airliner has suffered engine failure from this cause, but one such disaster would be too many...
From Seattle last week, the first of the new Boeing intercontinental jet transports, the 707-320, whipped over the top of the world to Rome in n hr. 6 min., breaking the 4,225-mile nonstop commercial record claimed by the Russians with their TU-114. For overseas jet passengers, the new plane's 5,830-mile flight means an eventual end to the stopoffs now necessary on many transatlantic jet hops with the 707-120, which was not designed as a truly intercontinental plane. Delivery of the new model will begin in July-and for the airlines...
...soldered wire, a spring or a clip. The airlines have had to delay flights because of trouble with the water-injection system used to boost takeoffs, bugs in the air-conditioning and pressurization system, even burnt-out lights over the passenger seats. On one occasion an American jet sat on the ground for several hours waiting for a replacement for a burnt-out taillight. Other gremlins: leaking brake fluid, inaccurate fuel-tank gauges, cracked cockpit windows...
...airlines' major fears has turned out to be groundless. The military had warned the lines that one of the biggest dangers would be sucking objects into the jet intake, especially on takeoff. So far neither Pan American. Trans World Airlines nor National Airlines has had a single case of engine damage either from nuts and bolts picked up on the runway or from birds in the air. American has had only one case-and it ended happily. Taking off from New York's Idlewild Airport, an American 707 on a training flight plowed through a flock of seagulls...