Word: prop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planes that took off from the Dallas Naval Air Station last week looked like a pair of elephants doing a mid-air pas de deux. Their wings were tilted vertically, while their four turbo prop engines blasted so much prop wash straight downward that they kept pieces of trash flying in all directions around the field. Back and forth they rocked, 50 ft. above the ground, when suddenly they stopped and hovered in the 10-m.p.h. wind. Ungainly as they looked, the pair of XC-142As were the first large U.S. military transports to demonstrate a helicopter-like capability...
...airplanes to Europe, and two of these facts directly contradict information given by Dustin Burke. (1) It is possible to charter projects to Europe this summer. While Mr. Burke claimed that this was impossible. I have seen a signed quotation by an airline to a N.Y. organization for a prop-jet to Europe this coming summer at a cost of $10,000 for 87 seats which is $115 per seat. (2) Prices have not gone up significantly this coming summer as a compared to last summer, as Mr. Burke claimed. In fact, the round trip cost of chartering...
...Frankfurt at a round trip cost of $252 per seat. Also for comparison the Columbia University Charters are sold for $190 to $245 for a jet and $215 to $259 for a DC-7. Note that there is no great difference in cost between a jet and a prop-jet and a DC-7 based on a per seat cost. HSA has raised its prices for jets this summer to $271 to $310 Again I ask HSA to make public its costs and to clearly show where the "profits" from the Charter Flight Agency are going. If HSA is making...
...edgy. Mrs. Bandaranaike is contesting her late husband's old seat at Attana-galla, near Colombo, and while she may keep a place in Parliament, she may well lose her prime-ministership. Labor strikes and a binge of nationalization have crippled the economy. Last summer she tried to prop up her unstable government by forming an alliance with the island's Trotskyites, who received three Cabinet portfolios, including the Finance Ministry...
...Minneapolis, to replace Robert V. Roosa, who is joining a New York investment firm. Roosa will be a tough act to follow; he was a key figure in the intricate international finance operation in November that poured a desperately needed $3 billion loan into the British treasury to prop up the sagging pound. But Deming, an economist with a Ph.D. from St. Louis' Washington University and a career man in the Federal Reserve System for 23 years, was hand-picked in mid-1962 by Roosa himself to be his stand-by replacement in an emergency. Deming...