Word: turboprop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tito received a hero's welcome. As he stepped from his Ilyushin-18 turboprop at Prague's airport, pretty girls in Moravian and Bohemian costumes pressed bouquets of carnations into his arms. In counterpoint to a thunderous 21-gun salute, thousands of Czechoslovaks chanted "Tito! Tito! Tito!" The route to the city was packed with thousands more, waving Yugoslav flags. At Prague's Hradčany Castle, Tito's residence during his two-day visit, a huge crowd kept up a continual clamor until Tito finally appeared on a balcony. "Long live Czechoslovak and Yugoslav friendship...
...increased its sales elevenfold and managed to earn a profit for the past ten years-without outright government subsidies. From a pitiful $5,750,000 revenue in its first full year of operation, El Al moved up to $12 million by 1957, when it introduced transatlantic flights with turboprop Britannias, and then nearly tripled revenues in 1961 with jets. Despite the Six-Day War, the airline grossed over $63 million and made a record profit of $1.5 million...
Since Lockheed Aircraft Corp. built its final turboprop Electra seven years ago, the Burbank, Calif., company has been searching for ways to get back into the passenger plane business and balance its space and military contracts with airline orders. Supersonic jets were one way, but Lockheed lost the SST contract to Boeing. Air buses-giant planes carrying double today's passenger load at subsonic speeds-were another way, and here Lockheed has at least been successful. In a joint announcement last week, TWA, Eastern Air Lines and a British firm called Air Holdings, Ltd., disclosed that they will purchase...
Despite Lockheed's quick start, McDonnell Douglas is grabbing the first-and possibly decisive-foothold in the 1,000-plane airbus market partly because U.S. airlines are still smarting over the performance of Lockheed's last commercial transport, the turboprop Electra. In 1959, Electras began coming apart in midair; Lockheed spent $25 million strengthening structural weaknesses, and the plane has performed splendidly ever since. With the American order in hand, Douglas may have a bargaining edge, too, with airlines such as United, Eastern and Delta, which are also shopping...
...astonishment of a handful of passengers waiting at Rome's Ciampino Airport at 4 a.m., squads of Italian police suddenly materialized and took up positions around the field. Moments later, a white turboprop jet taxied to a stop on the apron. In the plane's door way appeared a young man in the red-trimmed uniform of a field marshal...