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...other big manufacturer of piston engines, Curtiss-Wright Corp., is making a hybrid (for the Navy) on a different plan. Its Turbo-Cyclone 18 is a regular, 18-cylinder piston engine whose exhaust drives three turbines geared directly to the crankshaft. The energy recovered gives the engine more horsepower with over 15% more fuel economy...
Turbojet engines are fine for fast fighter planes and fast, short-range bombers. But in long-range bombers and commercial airplanes there is much to be said for the dependability and fuel economy of the old-fashioned piston-and-propeller engine...
...gases from the cylinders spin a two-stage turbine that drives a compressor. The air from the compressor passes through a cooler, which gets rid of the heat of compression, makes the air contract and become denser, able to burn more fuel. The dense supercharged air goes into the piston engine, burns with the fuel and passes on to the turbine. As it shoots out through a tailpipe, it exerts several hundred pounds of jet thrust...
...Busy." When an airplane designer looks at this engine, his gloating eyes light up. He knows that it develops some 5,000 horsepower-even more when moving through the air at high speed. But it weighs less than half as much as an equivalent piston engine, and is much more simple to build...
...along with Dallas businessmen. He is also a fine musician who has helped carry many a Texan the long distance from San Antonio Rose to Bartók "without going out of my way to annoy them." Dorati has given Dallas world premieres of works by Paul Hindemith, Walter Piston and George Antheil. Some Texans now brag almost as much about their symphony orchestras as about the size of their state...