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Eastern Air Lines' Captain Eddie Rickenbacker last week plotted the course that will take his airline into the jet age with a rush. In Manhattan Chairman Rickenbacker announced a $350 million, five-year plan for three new fleets of airliners -piston, turboprop and pure jet-to be paid for out of Eastern's future earnings and put into service in three giant steps...
...planes and their timetable: ¶ $125 million fleet of 40 piston-engined Douglas DC-7Bs, plus another ten Lockheed Super Constellations to give Eastern 370-m.p.h. cruising speeds along all its mainline routes. Eastern has already ordered 20 of the planes and received eight; the remaining 42 will be delivered...
...squadron leader shot at the runaway with a hand machine gun, but missed. At one point the flyaway plane was being pursued by six angry but ineffectual military planes. The Royal Australian Navy's fleet air arm, bitter rival of the R.A.A.F., then sent up a couple of piston-engined Sea Fury fighters, piloted by British veterans. Seven miles out to sea, Lieut. Peter McNay gave the Auster the full force of his 20-mm. guns. The tiny plane shook, burst into flames and slowly spiraled into the sea. Its pilotless flight had lasted 2¾hours...
...drives the propeller, a second powers the compressors, lowering fuel consumption and increasing the plane's speed. First aircraft slated to use the XT-53 turbine: Bell's small XH-4O Army helicopter, with a designed cruising speed of 115 m.p.h. (compared to 70 m.p.h. for similar piston-engine copters...
FIRST U.S. TURBOPROP plane for commercial use will soon be ordered by American Airlines to replace its piston-engined Convair 240s. Both Douglas and Lockheed are scrambling for an order from American for four-engined, 60-passenger transports with a 415-m.p.h. cruising speed and 2,500-mile cruising range...