Word: turbo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made the airlines the fastest-growing industry in the U.S., expanding by an average 14% a year since 1950, as against 8.4% for the runner-up, electric utilities. The pell-mell pace is still accelerating: this year U.S. airlines plan to take delivery of 287 new jet and turbo-prop planes worth almost $1.5 billion, nearly twice as much as they spent on equipment in 1965. With that outlay, the industry will add as much seat-mile capacity as it had altogether in 1950. The airlines are already the nation's No. 1 public carrier. Last year they accounted...
Best of all from Canadian National's point of view, the 340-passenger turbo-trains cost only half as much (about $2,500,000) as ordinary diesel equipment, can operate 30% more economically and, with engines at both ends, make three times as many trips a day without turning around...
Further away from production (perhaps seven years) but potentially more important is Chevrolet's prototype of a turbine-powered truck, the Turbo Titan III. Its engine is lighter, quieter and longer-lasting (350,000 miles v. 250,000) than conventional diesels, but fuel bills are costlier. Among its many innovations: "dial steering" by which a driver guides his truck with two small wheels mounted on a panel in front of him, similar to the "wrist-twist" system now being tested by Mercury. Chrysler Corp. is field-testing turbine cars but is undecided whether to market them...
...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...
...TILT WING: Rolled out last week by Ling-Tempco-Vought, Inc. of Dallas, the XC-142A transport has four turbo-prop engines and a wing that can be tilted for takeoff so that its four 15.6-ft. propellers point upward. When they all are pulling together, the props should generate enough direct lift to raise the plane vertically. When safely above obstacles, the pilot will gradually tilt the wing into normal flying position. The plane has yet to be flown, but its designers admit that it is no speedster. It will cruise at less than 300 m.p.h., and its operating...