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...turned out, 44-passenger, 335-m.p.h. Viscounts were a hit from the start. With big picture windows, less noise and vibration than piston-engined planes, the Viscounts operated up to 85% of full load for the first few months, have averaged 70% in their first full year v. an average 64% load factor for the rest of the industry. Replacing Lockheed Constellations with Viscounts on the Chicago-Washington run, Capital tripled its business, carried 33,802 passengers from February through May 1956 v. 11,322 passengers during the same period of 1955. Traffic on the New York-Pittsburgh...
...first commercial contract to install eight 240-h.p. gas turbine engines (used to start jet planes, power minesweepers) on cruiser fleet operated by Creole Petroleum on Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. New engines give speeds up to 33 m.p.h., weigh one-fourth as much as comparable piston engines...
Since Walter Piston has already received a degree, in 1952, speculators felt that Aaron Copland would probably be honored on June...
...Pratt & Whitney Aircraft division since 1943. "Jack" Homer, who will continue as chief executive officer, joined United in 1926 with an engineering degree from Yale, became Pratt & Whitney general manager in 1940. Horner directed the huge World War II expansion that made the company the biggest U.S. maker of piston engines for aircraft. Before becoming president of the parent company in 1943, Horner was vice president in charge of manufacturing for all United divisions...
...transportation. The Government made Rentschler give up his airline, but nothing could stop him from turning into the greatest airplane-engine builder. In World War II his United Aircraft Corp. made 363,610 Pratt & Whitney engines, nearly 50% of the total U.S. aircraft horsepower. By concentrating on piston engines to help win the war, P & W had to cut itself off from experience in the newer jet-power plants. Thus most competitors were far ahead of United. But "when the jet age really arrives," said Rentschler calmly, "we will be ready...