Word: turbojet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just Like Steam. The charm of the free piston engine is that it has many of the advantages of the straight gas turbine with none of the main disadvantages. The glamorous turbojet that flies through the air with such wonderful ease is as helpless on a highway as a bat or a hummingbird. Even the workaday turboprop (a gas turbine that delivers power through a shaft, not through a jet of gas) is hard to adapt to ground uses. Chief failings: 1) poor fuel economy, especially at low speed. 2) cost of heat-resistant parts, 3) sluggish response when power...
...General Motors' Allison engine division and Westinghouse. which produced the first U.S.-designed turbojet, both have lost much ground. Though Allison leads the turboprop field and will produce the engines for Lockheed's C-130A Hercules transport and new Electra airliner, it has only a small slice of the big jet market. Finally, Westinghouse has been beset by so many engine bugs that it is pinning most of its hopes on the new, medium-sized J54 jet which it has developed with $12.5 million of its own funds, hopes to sell to the Navy and Air Force...
...join a union). More significant, as a sign of how U.S.-style enlightened capitalism looks at labor-management relations, was the unpublicized opposition, while the measure was in the legislative mill, of several Indiana big businessmen. Among them: executives of Radio Corp. of America, Seagrams (liquor), the Allison Division (turbojet engines) of General Motors, and Cummins Engine, which manufactures half the diesel engines that propel U.S. trucks...
ATOM-JET ENGINE for nuclear planes has been tested successfully by the Atomic Energy Commission, which powered a laboratory turbojet engine solely on heat generated by experimental reactor. Said AEC: "A significant advance toward the ultimate goal of achieving atomic-powered flight...
SUPERSONIC MISSILE for Navy, Chance-Vought's surface-to-surface turbojet Regulus II, will soon be in production with $26 million order. Designed for subs and cruisers, missile is much faster (estimated speed: 1,000 m.p.h.) than subsonic Regulus...