Word: turboprop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With only two planes (Lockheed turboprop Electras), about 160 employees and the San Francisco-Orange County route that nobody wanted, Air California has snared an impressive and rapidly growing volume of business. By last week, when it flew its 80,000th passenger, the five-month-old airline had taken in $1,000,000 in revenue, revved up its schedule from five to a minimum of seven flights a day each way, and ordered two more Electras to expand service. Explained Air California President J. Kenneth Hull: "We're in competition with the freeways...
...General Dynamics' swing-wing F-lll fighter, flown from the U.S. and shown for the first time abroad. No less anxious to unleash a spectacular were the Russians, who contributed to the show's remarkable catalogue of names and numbers with the YAK-40 jet transport, the turboprop AN-22 which can carry 720 passengers, and the 300-ton Vostok satellite...
...Both planes can make money with only a quarter of their seats filled, come equipped with their own boarding stairs, ground airconditioning, and jet-starting units to keep intermediate stops brief. The planes thus satisfy the airlines' most immediate need: low-cost jets to replace obsolescent piston and turboprop planes on runs of up to 1,000 miles, which account for 50% of the world's air-passenger business...
Elementary Reciprocity. Despite its ultimate failure, the peace thrust came closer to success than any efforts in the past. Before he boarded his white Ilyushin-18 turboprop last week to end his week-long visit to Britain, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin spent some eight hours conferring with Prime Minister Harold Wilson on Viet Nam. In public, Kosygin witheringly blasted the U.S. for its role in the war. But in private, he signaled a new Soviet willingness to try to end the war, even agreed to ask the North Vietnamese if they would offer what Washington calls "elementary reciprocity" in exchange...
...embassy in Czechoslovakia last week flew to Beirut and announced that he was on his way to offer his services to the royalists. A Jordanian army officer went over to the Egyptian side. And an Egyptian intelligence officer armed with a Sten gun forced the pilot of an Egyptian turboprop airliner bound for a Red Sea port to fly him to Jordan, where he took political asylum...