Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sending specifications to airlines for its new four-engine jet transport. Boeing Airplane Co. last week disclosed derails of the new plane. The first U.S. entry into the field of jet passenger liners, Boeing's 707 will be the world's fastest and most powerful transport, with a cruising speed of well over 500 m.p.h. v. about 500 m.p.h. for the Comet III, Britain's most advanced passenger jet. It will carry from 60 to 120 passengers, depending on airline requirements...
...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...
Broken rain clouds hung low over Tachikawa Air Base last week as the EUR-124 Globemaster, biggest of the Air Force's transport craft, lumbered to the end of the runway. Visibility was a safe 2½ miles, and the 122 Air Force and Army passengers chatted easily as the massive, two-deck plane made a perfect takeoff...
...crash of a four-engined transport...
INTERIOR Secretary McKay, worried over charges that he opposes the development of natural resources, will soon announce support for two gigantic power and irrigation projects for the West. One is the Frying Pan-Arkansas project to transport water eastward from Frying Pan Creek, a tributary of the Colorado, through a tunnel under the Continental Divide to the Arkansas River, south of Denver. The other is the Upper Colorado project, calling for the building of ten dams, which could rival lower Colorado's Hoover (Boulder) Dam project, distribute water and power to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and New Mexico. McKay...