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...million contract to Lockheed for the single-jet F-104A, which USAF Chief of Staff General Nathan Twining describes as "the fastest, highest-flying fighter in the air anywhere." The order follows a $100 million contract placed by Eastern Air Lines last month for 40 Lockheed Electra turboprop airliners and an Air Force order last fortnight for "over $100 million" worth of C-130A Hercules cargo planes, boosting Lockheed's backlog to over $1.4 billion...
Eastern Air Lines' Captain Eddie Rickenbacker last week plotted the course that will take his airline into the jet age with a rush. In Manhattan Chairman Rickenbacker announced a $350 million, five-year plan for three new fleets of airliners -piston, turboprop and pure jet-to be paid for out of Eastern's future earnings and put into service in three giant steps...
...then, says Rickenbacker, he will have a fleet of 218 multiengined airliners-60 jet and turboprop "express liners," 60 local-service twin-engined ships, plus 98 four-engined "super air-coach" planes. All told, the fleet will treble Eastern's current carrying capacity to 20 million passengers annually flying 15 billion miles. Says Rickenbacker: "Air transportation should make more progress in the next ten years than we have been able to accomplish in the past...
...radical new "XT-53" turbine engine, for use in turboprop planes and helicopters, was announced in Manhattan by Avco Manufacturing Corp. Designed by Austrian-born Dr. Anselm Franz, who built Nazi Germany's (and the world's) first mass-produced jet engine, the new turbine works on the "free power" principle. The conventional turboprop engine drives both the propeller and machinery used to compress air for combustion; hence, no matter what throttle setting, the shaft must always be kept turning fast enough to keep the compressors working. In Franz's turbine, the two functions are independent...
...Without trying for any speed records, the Air Force's experimental XF-84H swept-wing turboprop fighter made its first flight at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Designed as a flying test bed for supersonic propellers, the long-range XF-84H is the first single-engine turboprop fighter to use an afterburner to provide jetlike climbing power. For a landing, its three-bladed, more than 3,000 r.p.m. propeller simply goes into reverse and enables the new turboprop to use far less runway than...