Word: pistons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hurel-Dubois 33, a two-engine, piston plane which, its makers claim, can ,take off in half the distance required for the DC-3, and carry comparable loads at only 41% of the DC-3's operating cost...
...four Pratt & Whitney J57 engines, rated at more than 10,000 Ibs. thrust v. 9,000 Ibs. thrust for Comet III engines. Payload of the new plane is put at 25,000 Ibs.. an increase of a third over the 18.750-lb. payload for Boeing's piston-engine Stratocruiser. The new jet transport will have wings swept back at the same angle as the B-47 and B-52 bombers. Cost of the new transport: an estimated...
...race settled down into a contest of durability on a track foul with exhaust fumes and simmering with bakeoven heat. For all their high-flown names (Springfield Welding Special, Cop-Sil-Loy Brake Special, Grancor-Elgin Piston Pin Special), all but one of the low-slung racers were powered by four-cylinder Meyer-Drake engines...
...will beat it in elapsed time because it will not have to make the refueling stops needed by the shorter-range Comet. Douglas is still tight-lipped about its own plans for jet transports, but the DC-7, says Vice President Arthur Raymond, "is definitely our last piston-type transport of the DC-7 size...
...department boasts men like Walter H. Piston and Thompson, two of the top four or five composers in the country, and Otto J. Gombosi and Stephen D. Tuttle, two of the nation's top musicologists...