Word: turbo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some pessimists fear that Britain's swift but short-ranged jet Comets will capture air-transport supremacy from U.S. planes. Last week, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. tried to cheer up the mourners. It showed off the first model of its "turbo-compounded" Super Constellation, a piston-type plane which will not only carry about three times as many passengers (99) as the Comet I, but cover long hauls in less elapsed time. It is the first transport, said Lockheed, which will be able to guarantee nonstop flights from New York to Europe on a regular-fare, scheduled basis...
Hurry-Up Job. The bomber started out 3½ years ago as a makeshift project. Five Boeing engineers had gone to Wright Field to show the Air Force plans for an intercontinental turbo-prop bomber on which Boeing had been working for two years. But the Air Force turned it down, said it wanted a long-range, all-jet bomber. The engineers holed up in a hotel room for two days and, using a bureau top as a drawing board and balsa wood from model airplane kits, put together a rough model of the kind of jet bomber Boeing could...
Move over to erector set counter. Gamins have congregated here. One salesgirl surrounded. "But what about the electro-dynamic turbo flow on the distributing generator head?" demanded...
...plant in Cicero, Ill. to turn out 600,000 ranges a year. He spent another $11 million buying and retooling a surplus war plant in Milwaukee to turn out hot-water heaters, but with the Korean war, used it to land Hotpoint's first big defense order for turbo superchargers. With a Government tax write-off, Hotpoint expanded the plant, now makes both turbo superchargers and hot-water heaters. Nance had also begun a new $20 million plant to make refrigerators when a Navy contract diverted it to making Pratt & Whitney jet-engine components...
Planes of the Future. The P-1067, Supermarine 508 and Valiant have already reached the production stage. Other standouts: the four-jet Short SA4 bomber, the Vickers Supermarine Swift, giant cargo-carriers, turbo-prop torpedo planes, transports and helicopters. Britain also has newer designs still being developed...