Word: piston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AIRLINE JET PILOT'S pay will climb to $26,800 a year. First U.S. jet-age contract, signed by National Airlines and Air Line Pilots Association, sets figure as top gross pay for senior captain of four-jet Douglas DC-8 (v. $21,600 for piston-engine...
...carburetor for Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. As chief engineer for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, which grew into United's engine division in 1935, he developed the R-2800 Double Wasp, workhorse engine of World War II, and the R-4360 Wasp Major, most powerful aircraft piston engine ever made. Pratt & Whitney was a late starter with postwar jets, but Hobbs soon lapped the field with his J-57, the engine that earned him the prized Collier Trophy in 1953, made Pratt & Whitney No. 1 engine supplier for U.S. military aircraft...
...will be ready to handle either the big planes or the flood of new travelers riding in them. During the twelve months ending last March, air traffic at a dozen leading U.S. airports jumped 19%; with jets that can carry up to 140 passengers, v. 90 for the biggest piston-engine plane, traffic volume will soon rise even faster. But most cities are still dragging their heels on airport-improvement plans. "Unless some of these people get busy and fast," says one United Air Lines captain, "I can see the day when the sky will be full of planes...
...coming of the turbojet will multiply the problems of airports that are crowded, inconvenient and sometimes dangerous even for today's DC-75. The jets will weigh 300,000 Ibs. fully loaded, v. 150,000 Ibs. for the largest piston-engine airliner now in use, making most present runways too short for safety, and the hot breath of jet-engine exhausts will melt many runway and taxi-strip surfaces. Moreover, since six jetliners arriving close together will disembark as many passengers as an ocean liner, the passenger, baggage and ticketing jams of today will pale beside tomorrow...
...PLANE ORDER will soon be awarded by United Air Lines, which will replace its short-haul fleet of 54 piston-engine Convairs with turboprops or jets at cost of about $150 million. Company is leaning toward Lockheed's 410-m.p.h. Electra turboprop...