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...Encouraged by the company's rapid growth-over the past five years, annual sales have almost tripled, to $15.2 million-Rachal merged last month with Alon, Inc., a Kansas manufacturer of training aircraft. Moving into the twin-engine field, he has contracted to build a 300-m.p.h. turboprop executive plane designed by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. And next year, in his most ambitious undertaking, Rachal will introduce the Mooney Mustang; a pressurized, single-engine private plane, it will cruise at 230 m.p.h. and altitudes...
...Lockheed's air bus is the second of two projects on which the company had been pinning its hopes for re-entry into the commercial airframe business, a field that it left (except for business jets) in 1962, when it rolled out the last of 170 turboprop Electras. The No. 1 target was the Government-supported program to build a U.S. supersonic transport. When its SST hopes crashed last...
...Breguet 941 accomplishes all this with the modest power of four 1,500-h.p. turboprop engines mounted on a 77-ft. wingspan, and two striking innovations. All four engines are mechanically linked to a flexible driveshaft set in the leading edges of the wings. If one or more engines fail, all four of the 941's big 15-ft. propellers continue to spin, powered by the engines still running. In addition, the wings are equipped with outsize flaps that lower to an angle of 105°-about 15° more than the flaps of any conventional aircraft...
...passenger on the turboprop wheeling out to the runway at Paris' Orly Airport could hardly believe his eyes. As the cockpit door briefly opened, he had got a glimpse of the crew up front. There beside the pilot sat a good-looking blonde. It was Jacqueline Dubut's debut as France's first lady pilot on a scheduled airline...
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...