Word: piston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lockheed's F-104A Starfighter. Yet the four-jet B58 Hustler is far from quantity production, and the F104 program may be slowed down (TIME, Feb. 25). Curtiss-Wright is little better off. The company has big commercial orders for its 3,700-h.p. Wright Turbo Compound piston engine, but was slow to push into jets, has only one big seller in the relatively low-powered (about 7,000-lb. thrust) J65 engine for subsonic Navy and Air Force fighters and Grumman's lightweight supersonic F11 F-1 Tiger...
...look for new profits is in the big market for light civilian plane engines. Of the estimated 24,500 engines 'built in the U.S. last year, more than half were for civilian aircraft, most of them small business or personal planes. Enginemaker Lycoming, with half a dozen small piston engines already in production, is busy developing a light turboprop engine for greater speed and altitude. Continental has moved into baby jets, looks forward to a big market for its 920-lb.-thrust jet as the power plant for Cessna's T-37 Air Force jet trainer and will...
Farmer's Friend. An experimental free-piston tractor, which promises to give U.S. farmers more power per dollar than any tractor currently on the market, was shown by Ford Motor Co. Ford's "Typhoon" is powered by the same turbine-like free-piston engine (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955) already being tested in trucks and boats, has the advantage of low fuel cost, simpler construction (no crankshaft, no spark plugs), less vibration and no need for early-morning warmups. The company hopes to put a free-piston tractor on the market within the next few years...
...soft sea air that had swept away a week's foul weather. They found the world newly come alive, trees and stuccoed buildings glistening magically in rain-washed brilliance. Overhead, winter's deep blue sky throbbed to the scream of jets and the snarl of conventional piston engines. But to the San Fernando Valley's children, raised around Southern California's cluster of major aircraft plants, the heavy traffic in vapor trails and engine noises was unmagically routine...
...conductor, his unquestionable brilliance is sometimes obscured by his podium manner. He never uses a baton, relying instead on his highly expressive hands and indeed on his whole body. Is the music delicate, finely and rapidly interwoven? "Watching Lennie do some parts of Scheherezade." says Composer Walter Piston, "is like watching a woman knit." Is it the moment for a powerful initial attack? Lennie will deliver a stroke that is worthy of a medieval headsman (in St. Louis once, he delivered an introductory downbeat so overwhelmingly spectacular that every man in the orchestra sat jaw-dropped in wonder, unable...