Word: pistons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TRANSPORTS will cost the airlines $1 billion over the next ten years in the changeover from piston-powered planes, predicts Civil Aeronautics Board Member Oswald Ryan. The outlay for jets will equal all airlines' current capital investment...
When Fritz Mayer reached his retirement age two years ago, his magnificent instrument (current value: $350,000) was still incomplete: the highly complicated piston controls-for quick changing of the 757 stop keys-were not hooked up. Under the energetic leadership of Manhattan's Mrs. Courtney Campbell, veteran of Washington politics, Mayer's friends went to work, lobbied through Congress and right up to the White House. Result: President Truman's Executive Order 10,334, exempting Mayer from compulsory retirement "in the public interest . . . for an indefinite period." Organist Mayer went right on supervising the completion...
...which the organist can automatically and instantly bring into play a pre-set combination of stops and couplers by merely pressing a controlling piston...
Convair tried to turn the piston-engined B-36 design into a pure jet by sweeping back the wings, slinging eight jet engines underneath. But in competition, Convair's XB-60 lost out to Boeing's all-new, 600-m.p.h. B-52. With Boeing's B-52 jet bombers now in production (TIME, July 19), the old B-36s have seen their day, will gradually be retired to a secondary role by S.A.C. Now Convair is busily at work on its own all-jet bomber, the XB-58 Hustler. The secret new plane will be a heavy...
...took 103 lives on the U.S.S. Bennington (TIME, June 7). Last week the Navy announced that it is abandoning the hydraulic catapult. A steam-powered model of British design, already tested successfully aboard the U.S.S. Hancock, will be installed on all American carriers. The steam catapult, utilizing a hooked piston riding in a slotted cylinder, is safer than the old hydraulic model because it uses no highly volatile, explosive liquids...