Word: turboprop
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...turbine engine possibilities-are skeptical. They argue that the cost of building such engines is prohibitive, that they accelerate slowly, that it is hard to slow down the turbines when the driver releases the accelerator, in the same way that it is difficult to stop the blades of a turboprop airplane...
...these aging, prop-driven planes, the Air Force will boost its airlift capability by 25%, will be able to fly two divisions to Europe in about two weeks. Looking ahead, the Air Force will buy more Lockheed C-130 transports, order additional machine tools so that production of the turboprop, 360-m.p.h. C-130s can be quickly speeded...
...bulky turboprop, which looks much like a Soviet Ilyushin 18, touched down at José Marti airport, a waiting crowd of Cubans cheered and youthful armed militiamen saluted. But the cheers died abruptly when the big "Eastern Air Lines" markings became clear and the pistol-packing waiter climbed out. The exuberant crowd had been waiting for an entirely different visitor-Soviet Spaceman Yuri Gagarin...
United medallions appeared on Capital stewardess uniforms, and Capital planes were repainted United's white with red and blue trim. Capital (and the Civil Aeronautics Board) accepted Capital's disappearance because there was no reasonable alternative; its incautious purchase of 60 turboprop Viscounts seven years ago had helped push Capital to the verge of bankruptcy. But for Hawaiian-born William ("Pat") Patterson, 61, United's president, the deal had more positive appeal. Capital's routes, running chiefly in the Southeast with extensions to the Midwest, neatly complement United's transcontinental and West Coast runs. Because...
Gagarin arrived in a turboprop airliner escorted by a swarm of jet fighters. Along with his parents and Wife Valentina, the entire upper crust of the Soviet hierarchy was on hand to greet him. The nuzzling, the bear hug and the long kiss he got from Premier Khrushchev seemed even more active than Valentina's warm embrace. Other dignitaries greeted the cosmonaut in their turn. Then, in a column of flower-decked cars, the official party drove slowly toward Red Square and a 20-gun salute from Red artillerymen...