Word: prop
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...many optimistic and thoroughly modern citizens, the American Dream of the 1930s included not only a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage, but also an Autogiro in every backyard. Chickens and cars have proliferated, but the Autogiro-a prop-driven aircraft with a freewheeling rotor in place of a wing-has virtually disappeared, a victim of its own inefficiencies and the remarkable success of the helicopter. The dream may yet come true. California's McCulloch Aircraft Corp. has successfully test-flown a contemporary Autogiro that is safer than a conventional plane, less expensive than...
...often requires four separate control functions, and according to helicopter pilots is "like rubbing your head, patting your stomach and tapping time to Dixie with both feet, all at once," operating the J-2 is a snap. After starting the engine and the J-2's conventional push prop, the pilot depresses a lever at the side of his seat, temporarily engaging the engine to the overhead rotor. When the overhead ro tor reaches 520 r.p.m., the pilot pushes a button to disengage the rotor and change its blade pitch from flat to 5°. While the kinetic energy...
...market, gold purchases reached some $300 million, many times the nor mal demand. Because the fortunes of sterling and the dollar are closely linked, that was enough to drive the value of the pound down to a record low of $2.392, despite efforts by the Bank of England to prop it up. (In Montreal, quotations in 9210 Canadian dollars registered a comparable price.) Gold sales also soared in Paris, Zurich and Frankfurt. Everywhere, buyers were betting that the U.S. would be forced to raise the price of gold - a step tantamount to devaluing the dollar. Though the Treasury and White...
...Prop for Medicine. But many others, desperate to exchange the miserable living conditions in their own countries for the relative luxury of English life, have entered illegally. Since the 1962 Act also provides free entry for the dependents of work-permit holders, false dependency claims have vastly boosted the annual inflow. Authorities believe that thousands of illegal immigrants are flown to Belgium or France and then, in a lucrative people-smuggling trade, ferried across the English Channel to deserted beaches (fare: $1,200 to $1,800). Between 1962 and 1966, the annual immigrant inflow rose from...
When the major commercial airlines switched over to jets in the early 1960s, they were stuck with hundreds of suddenly obsolete prop planes. The surplus planes may have seemed like a herd of white elephants to the airlines, but to budget-minded travelers with imagination, they have come to represent a skyful of magic carpets. The arithmetic was irresistible: with second-hand DC-7s available for as little as $100,000, it needed only 1,000 people contributing $100 each to buy one. Some two dozen private, nonprofit travel clubs quickly formed to put that principle to work, manning...