Word: turbojet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minister who ordered the subs stood to collect a $300,000 "commission." The latest scandal brewing is in Cuba, where Fidel Castro agreed to pay $150 each for 24,000 Belgian automatic rifles worth $75 each. The fancy equipment is often short-lived. Days after Ecuador got three Canberra turbojet bombers, a mechanic cracked up two of them taxiing on the landing strip...
LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT expects its best commercial-transport year in 1959, will deliver 112 turbojet Electras valued at $260 million (previous record: $203 million), set up a new Electronics and Avionics Division...
...With present technology, a nuclear turbojet engine would offer only the advantage of endurance, and this already is largely overcome by long-range and in flight refueling techniques for faster-flying jets; moreover, both jets and the nuclear plane will soon be made obsolete by missiles...
...Minutes after it had surfaced off California's Point Mugu. the Navy's conventionally powered submarine Grayback launched a stubby-winged turbojet missile from its deck, quietly slipped back under the waves. With chase and control planes following closely. Chance Vought's Regulus II flew a guided, circuitous 200-mile route to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, where because of a landing-gear malfunction, it burned up on landing. But the landing was a technicality : the business version of Regulus II will pack a nuclear warhead on a 1,000-mile range, will give...
...coming of the turbojet will multiply the problems of airports that are crowded, inconvenient and sometimes dangerous even for today's DC-75. The jets will weigh 300,000 Ibs. fully loaded, v. 150,000 Ibs. for the largest piston-engine airliner now in use, making most present runways too short for safety, and the hot breath of jet-engine exhausts will melt many runway and taxi-strip surfaces. Moreover, since six jetliners arriving close together will disembark as many passengers as an ocean liner, the passenger, baggage and ticketing jams of today will pale beside tomorrow...