Word: turboprop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main supply line is by air-aboard Russian-built AN-12 turboprop transports from Algeria and Cairo to Khartoum airport for transshipment to the southern Sudanese town of Juba aboard smaller aircraft. Most of the turboprops bear Algerian markings but are flown by Russian pilots. The large part of the equipment was supplied by Ben Bella and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, but Russia apparently has promised to replace all weapons they send to the Simbas...
Everybody's race is against the British, who almost won by default. Not since 1953, when the British introduced the Viscount turboprop, have they made such a determined selling push. British Aircraft Corp., maker of the $2,800,000 BAG One-Eleven, has lined up 74 orders and 16 options from airlines, including three customers in the U.S.-American (25 planes), Braniff (14) and Mohawk (5). Deliveries will begin in a couple of months, nearly a year ahead of Douglas, but Douglas hopes that many airlines may hold off ordering until its plane takes...
...take off at nearly any commercial airport now serviced by ordinary piston planes. The advent of the DC-9 and other short-haul jets will bring the jet age within the reach of nearly every run and runway. The new planes will gradually replace the old piston and turboprop jets on runs of up to 1,000 miles, which now account for more than 60% of the world's passenger business...
Rebel Airlift. Last week into Khartoum, capital of the Sudan, winged planeload after planeload of arms and ammunition bound for the Congo from Ghana, Algeria and Egypt. Secrecy hung thick as a cloud of Sudanese flies around the British-built Comets and Russian turboprop AN-12s as they transshipped their cargoes to smaller aircraft. Although the Sudanese government cynically claimed that the tarpaulin-covered crates carried nothing more dangerous than "medical supplies," they must have been the world's heaviest bandages...
...Would Die. There was always the chance that the rebels were bluffing. But a battalion of 600 crack Belgian paratroopers was loaded aboard U.S. C-130 turboprop transports at Belgium's Diest airbase, flown to a little-used U.S. military base on Ascension Island, a British outpost in the South Atlantic only six air hours from Stanleyville. If necessary for humanitarian reasons, the Belgian government later announced, the paratroopers would be dropped on Stanleyville...