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...rocket eastward by "locking on to" the sun. After it is launched, it would require guidance only in the second stage. There are two possible ground-control methods: beaconed radar or moving intersecting radio beams. The third, satellite stage would be unguided and would carry only a 30-lb. payload of instruments or experimental animals. According to his calculations, it would reach 18,400 m.p.h. on a slightly elliptical orbit around the earth. Its instruments, perhaps supplied with electricity by a Bell Telephone Lab's solar battery, would report air and space conditions, the effect of weightlessness...
...Piasecki, Bell, Kaman, Killer, Sikorsky, Doman) have given much time to either commercial design or production, are currently grossing $500 million annually without catering to the civilian market. Of the eleven types of helicopters certificated for civilian use, all are modified, single-engined military craft with high costs, low payload, speed and range...
...experience, Bristol is already 14 months behind schedule, will probably not deliver the first plane until 1960. Furthermore, BOAC has serious doubts whether the plane can compete safely over transoceanic air routes. Though its range is listed as 5,100 miles, it drops to 3,900 miles at full payload, leaving only a slim margin of fuel on nonstop flights against stiff North Atlantic headwinds...
TURBOPROP SUPER CONNIE, world's fastest propeller transport, was flight-tested by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Built for the U.S. Navy, the new R7V-2 is equipped with four 5,500-h.p. Pratt & Whitney T-34 turboprop engines, has a payload of 16 tons, a top cruising speed of 440 m.p.h...
...slow, multi-purpose military transport plane is obsolete. So declared Lieut. General Joseph Smith, U.S.A.F., boss of the Military Air Transport Service, at a meeting of aeronautical engineers in Seattle. Two different aircraft are needed: 1) a 550-m.p.h. jet transport (range, 3,500 miles; payload, 15 tons), to lift key personnel and vital supplies; 2) a slower, turboprop cargo plane with a 25-ton payload and a range of 3,500 miles. Boeing's experimental 707 jetliner (TIME, March 8) roughly satisfies the first requirement; a suitable U.S. turboprop transport has yet to be put into mass production...