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...diameter, and weighs 28,000 lbs. fully fueled. The Viking is 45 ft. long, only 2½ ft. in diameter, and weighs only 11,000 lbs. According to an observer on board the Norton Sound, the rocket launched from the ship carried a 1,000-lb. payload of instruments for studying high-altitude cosmic rays. It might have carried a bomb (perhaps a lightweight-model atom bomb...
...efficient than the motors of the V-25. They are smaller for the equivalent power, and they burn commercially pure alcohol instead of the alcohol mixed with 25% water that the Germans used to hold down the heat of combustion. The improvements, Dr. Porter believes, will show up in payload-the ultimate payoff of rocketry. G.E. does not say how many of its motors, if any, have yet been flown at White Sands Proving Ground...
...Comet, said De Havilland, has a gross weight of 105,000 lbs., a cruising speed of 490 m.p.h., and a practical commercial range of 2,645 miles, with a payload of 12,000 lbs., including 36 passengers and their baggage. A 50-mile headwind, which is often met on east-west transatlantic hops, would cut the range to 2,140 miles...
...speeds, e.g., when taking off and landing, and consume so much more gas than present commercial planes that they can not be "stacked" at crowded airports while waiting to land. And, on long ranges, they have to carry so much fuel that it cuts down the passenger payload...
...More Payload. Vickers-Armstrong claims that the Viscount 700, the first turboprop airliner to pass its structural aerodynamic tests, has already proved itself superior to comparable airplanes powered with piston engines. It burns more fuel, but it carries a ton of extra payload because of the lightness of its engines. It cruises at 325 m.p.h. with 40 passengers, and is designed for short or medium runs, such as London-Paris and London-Rome...