Word: turboprop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Around 12:30 p.m. every Monday and Friday, an aging Cubana Airlines turboprop Britannia whistles to a halt at Mexico City's International Airport. Squads of police stand by. All passengers arriving without diplomatic or Mexican passports are photographed and questioned by immigration men. Sometimes the travelers grapple with the cameramen; they always dodge questions. "Why are you here? Where are you going?" ask the Mexicans. "None of your business," answer the secretive travelers. "Tourists," say the others blandly. Going to Cuba or coming, it is all perfectly legal, and they proceed on their...
...flight is the world's longest nonstop passenger run in the world's largest transport. Once a week, an immense Russian turboprop TU-114 transport lifts from the runway of Havana's José Marti airport and points north on the 6,800-mile run to Moscow. Among the passengers aboard last week's flight was TIME'S Correspondent Edmund Stevens, the first Westerner ever to make the trip. His report...
...else in the world that when he decided to go to Russia, it did not occur to him to go alone; he dreamed up a mass flight of British capitalists. And it was typical of Thomson, too, that he talked the Russians into supplying the plane - a TU-114 turboprop with a seating capacity of 200, the largest passenger plane now flying. That was just the ship for Thomson, a collection of Thomson aides and 138 guests, all from the upper registers of British business: John Bedford of Debenhams (department stores), H. E. Darvill of Barclays Bank, Whitney Straight...
Dangerous Dependence. Financial turbulence has been too much for the other big U.S. planemakers. Within the past 18 months, Lockheed, after taking an $80 million loss on its turboprop Electra, gave up commercial planemaking entirely; General Dynamics, which lost $425 million on its Convair jetliners, also quit. By withdrawing from commercial planemaking and concentrating on missiles and aerospace, the airframe companies have become increasingly dependent on the Government, which accounts for 83% of Lockheed's sales and 77% of Douglas'. Despite the dangers of such heavy reliance-as Douglas recently discovered when it lost...
...than a decade, half the world's aircraft manufacturers have been struggling to develop a latter-day replacement for the traditional workhorse of the airways, Douglas Aircraft's 26-year-old DC-3. The planemaker that has come closest is Royal Netherlands Fokker Aircraft, whose sleek, twin-turboprop F-27 Friendship is now used by 36 airlines spanning all six continents...