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...Eastern Air Lines Electra crash on Oct. 4, 1960, just after take-off from Boston's Logan International Airport (62 dead, 10 survivors), was probably caused by starlings sucked into three of the aircraft's four Allison turboprop engines. The birds' bodies clogged the turbines so that power was insufficient to keep the Electra airborne. Two Federal Aviation Agency scientists had already raised an eerie possibility. Wrote they after studying sound patterns: "The Electra sound spectrum contains an audible chirp which appears identical in frequency and wave form to the chirp of field crickets. Field observations strongly...
...time, Donner operates from behind a paper-free walnut desk in his 24th-floor Manhattan office overlooking Central Park. The rest of his time he spends in Detroit, commuting in one of the company's fleet of twin-engined Convairs equipped with G.M.'s Allison turboprop engines. "He likes to travel before or after working hours," says an aide, "so that he won't miss any time in the office...
...Soviet Ilyushin-18 turboprop touched down at Belgrade's military airport last week, rolled to a stop before a neat row of Communist-bloc diplomats that included every resident Red representative except the Albanians. Then the plane door popped open and out stepped Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko, his usual grouchy expression replaced by an almost friendly smile...
...years Lockheed Aircraft Corp. had known nothing but trouble. Its ill-starred Electra turboprop airliner tarnished the company's name and lost it millions. Its eight-seat JetStar executive plane landed on the market with a thud, and in 1960 Lockheed rode into the red by $43 million. Then last September cancer killed Chairman Robert Ellsworth Gross, 64. who had gambled $40,000 to take over the failing company in 1932. and subsequently gave it not only a place in the sun but also a Constellation. Left to mop up the problems was his shy and schoolmasterly brother. Courtlandt...
...systematically plundered the country's resources and sold favors to the highest bidders. Cynics wondered whether Macapagal's first moves were only part of a pose-he put up for sale Garcia's $2,500,000 presidential yacht Lapn-Lapu and his twin-engine Fokker turboprop plane, canceled the traditional inaugural ball to mingle with the tao (common people) at an outdoor dance. During his first month in office he began to convince the country that he meant to keep his pledge...