Word: turbo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when 16 of its 19 plants were idle, revitalized the ailing company. He slashed costs, ramrodded through a diversification program into electronics, plastics, nuclear reactors, rockets and ultrasonics. But in pushing diversification, he let his research and work on products coming off the line lag. Although the Wright turbo compound engine was standard on both the DC-7 and Super Constellation, it proved so unsatisfactory that airlines were not interested in Wright engines for the new jet airliners. Defense business also faded...
...airplane building." As McBrearty ex plained it, the two Electras were brought down by a combination of factors, none of which would have been enough to wreck the planes by itself. The basic flaw was that the support structure of the wing nacelles, holding the plane's turbo prop engines, was not built sturdily enough. When damaged or weakened by such a common occurrence as a rough landing, the struts beneath the four engines no longer held the engine nacelle tightly enough in place. Said McBrearty: "All of our tests and calculations substantiate the conviction that some element...
Monroney campaigned to reorient MATS not only to stop it from muscling in on the airlines but to improve its damaged military effectiveness. He charged that obsolescence had all but crippled MATS' 455-plane air fleet; two months ago MATS was forced to ground all its Wright Turbo Compound-powered Constellations because of maintenance problems, and it has kept its C124 Globe-masters in service only by cannibalizing disabled ships. MATS is in such sad shape that it will have to charter several dozen commercial aircraft for the airlift of 20,000 soldiers to next month's Army...