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...Skyshark has a T40 Allison twin turboprop engine (5,500 h.p.) driving counterrotating propellers. The props give it high take-off thrust, and the gas turbines give it high power for low engine weight. After the take-off with a heavv load of bombs or fuel, the pilot can shut down one of the turbines and cruise at economically low speed. The Navy says that the Skyshark has "performance comparable with that of many operational jet fighters." Armed with rockets bombs, torpedoes, etc., it can support amphibious troops, as well as attack surface ships, may also turn...
From Paris, word leaked out that onetime Wonder Boy Orson Welles, 35, was working on a new play called The Unthinking Lobster. It would be a take-off on movie people with all the characters easily recognizable, according to Variety, and "likely not to endear Welles with Hollywood...
...Take-Off. To show them, Tom Braniff had been knocking long & loud at the door of Argentina. As long ago as 1946, the Civil Aeronautics Board awarded Braniff routes down the west coast of South America to Lima and across to Rio de Janeiro. He even had a route allotted him into Argentina, but he did not have the permit from Argentina that he needed. Not till Braniff got the State Department, which was considering economic assistance to Argentina, to do some diplomatic stiff-arming for him did President Perón decide to play ball. The new flights will...
...slowing down, as when "stacked up" over a fogbound airport. These faults were not so bad in the case of fast fighters, but when designers tackled jet airliners or long-range bombers, they missed the good old propeller, which gets a firm grip on the air at even slow take-off speeds...
Hamilton's designers are sure that its new-style propellers will work efficiently even above the speed of sound. But their first jobs will probably be in subsonic turboprop fighters for use on carriers, where quick take-off is all-important. Other uses: long-range turboprop bombers and transports in the 4OO-500-mile speed range...