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Since then, Pan Am has developed an elaborate technique of air hitchhiking. Before each flight from Tokyo, meteorologists figure out where the jet stream is going to be and how much help can be expected from it. The ship is loaded accordingly (more help, more payload), and the captain is told what course to fly. Generally he climbs into the stream at 17,000 ft. half an hour out of Tokyo. As knowledge accumulates, more flying time is saved. Now each airplane hitched to the jet stream "finds" 2,200 gallons of free...
...scheduled for its first flight next summer, will be powered by four Pratt & Whitney J57 engines, rated at more than 10,000 Ibs. thrust v. 9,000 Ibs. thrust for Comet III engines. Payload of the new plane is put at 25,000 Ibs.. an increase of a third over the 18.750-lb. payload for Boeing's piston-engine Stratocruiser. The new jet transport will have wings swept back at the same angle as the B-47 and B-52 bombers. Cost of the new transport: an estimated...
Said Smith: "The time for that is more distant than some are willing to believe." The basic trouble with the Comet, Smith told a transportation conference at Syracuse University, is that its tremendous fuel consumption (10,000 lbs. per hour) cuts down the space left for payload. Other drawbacks: "It is inefficient at low altitude and at reduced power...
...design of the detail components that go into an overall design. It is here that aeronautical engineering differs most from other forms of science and engineering. The main enemy of the designer is weight, for every ounce of extra weight in the airframe means one less ounce of payload. The designer works in media almost unknown in other industries. He designs strong structures from thin, light metals. These metals impose rigid limitations on the designs, for it is frequently difficult to fashion them...
...flown today, the 7½-ton Viking Nine, was fired last week at White Sands Proving Ground. Climbing 135 miles above the earth, it did not establish a new altitude record; the Viking Seven, fired in August 1951, went just as high. But the latest Viking carried the heaviest payload: 750 Ibs. of instruments, a big improvement on the 450 Ibs. carried by the Viking Seven. According to Dr. Milton Rosen, head of the Navy's Viking project, the rocket performed beautifully, going just where it was expected...