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...TURBOPROP SUPER CONNIE, world's fastest propeller transport, was flight-tested by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Built for the U.S. Navy, the new R7V-2 is equipped with four 5,500-h.p. Pratt & Whitney T-34 turboprop engines, has a payload of 16 tons, a top cruising speed of 440 m.p.h...
Powered by four Allison T40 turboprop engines developing a total 22,000 h.p., Convair's Flying LST is expected to cruise at better than 350 m.p.h., have a range of more than 2,000 miles, and climb faster than some World War II fighter planes. It can carry a cargo load of 24 tons, equivalent to four 155-mm. howitzers, three 2½-ton trucks, six jeeps and two half-tracks. As a transport, it can pack in 150 fully equipped troops...
...declared Lieut. General Joseph Smith, U.S.A.F., boss of the Military Air Transport Service, at a meeting of aeronautical engineers in Seattle. Two different aircraft are needed: 1) a 550-m.p.h. jet transport (range, 3,500 miles; payload, 15 tons), to lift key personnel and vital supplies; 2) a slower, turboprop cargo plane with a 25-ton payload and a range of 3,500 miles. Boeing's experimental 707 jetliner (TIME, March 8) roughly satisfies the first requirement; a suitable U.S. turboprop transport has yet to be put into mass production...
LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT Corp. is ready to flight-test its big (20-ton capacity), powerful (15,000 h.p.) turboprop military-cargo plane, the YC-130, next week. Designed as a workhorse, the YC-130 can carry a tank, take off from short, front-line airstrips, fly faster and higher than any other U.S. military transport. Lockheed already has Air Force orders for 29 YC-lSOs, and expects to deliver the first production model within a year...
...successive Comet crashes, last week bounced off the ropes and back into the center of the ring. After negotiations in London (TiME, June 7), Capital Airlines President J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael, 47, flew back to the U.S. with the news that he was buying a whole fleet of British turboprop transports, expects to start operating them by next April. He bought three Vickers Viscounts, has an option on 37 more, to replace most of his Constellations, DC-3s and DC-4s. Total price: $45 million...