Word: turbo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomber and Lockheed's F-104A Starfighter. Yet the four-jet B58 Hustler is far from quantity production, and the F104 program may be slowed down (TIME, Feb. 25). Curtiss-Wright is little better off. The company has big commercial orders for its 3,700-h.p. Wright Turbo Compound piston engine, but was slow to push into jets, has only one big seller in the relatively low-powered (about 7,000-lb. thrust) J65 engine for subsonic Navy and Air Force fighters and Grumman's lightweight supersonic F11 F-1 Tiger...
...nose that gives the 116-ft. Columbine an eye on weather 200 miles ahead to the specially rubberized presidential escape chute that makes for cooler slides to the ground after a forced landing, the fussed-over plane is thoroughly checked after every 50 hours in the air. The four turbo-compound engines of ordinary Super Constellations are overhauled at the 1,200-hour mark; Columbine's get torn apart after 600 hours...
...Turbo-charged Tractors. The first practical turbosupercharger for heavy-duty tractors and earthmovers has been developed by Los Angeles' Garret Corp. Like a turbosupercharger on a plane, Garrett's device captures hot exhaust gases to drive a turbine, which in turn drives air into the cylinder, increasing combustion and power. Primarily developed for Caterpillar Tractor of Peoria, Ill., the supercharger reportedly boosts heavy-duty diesel-engine output by 50%, trebles the tractor's work capacity. Airesearch next plans to adapt the turbosuperchargers to smaller diesel engines, such as those on trucks and buses...
...planes. Nevertheless, the Army Air Corps liked the Fortress well enough to order 13 for "service tests." While the plane was proving itself, Boeing's engineers went to work to' build a better Flying Fortress. Beall and Wells put in bigger, goo-h.p. engines with turbo-superchargers, so that the Fort could operate at 38,000 ft. When World War II came along, Boeing was ready. Phil Johnson came back from his Canadian exile in 1939 to run the show. Bill Allen worked out production contracts. Wellwood Beall started the production lines humming. A year later, Boeing...
...tail-down in a similar vertical attitude. Both planes were photographed sitting vertically on their tails (which are equipped with small casters) in take-off position. Both are apparently able to raise and lower themselves simply by virtue of tremendous lift in their counterrotating propellers. The fighters, powered by turbo prop engines, would assume a normal, horizontal attitude after being airborne...