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Better Bird Dog. Cessna Aircraft Co. flight-tested a two-passenger plane powered by Boeing's small turboprop engine, the world's first turboprop light plane. A piston-powered model of the plane, the "Bird Dog" has been widely used in Korea on observation missions. The turboprop version, which has a cruise rating of 175 h.p., is lighter than earlier models, and has somewhat longer range and can operate on all grades and ranges of fuel, a big advantage in combat zones...
...Force last week gave Lockheed Aircraft Corp. a contract to turn out a turboprop cargo assault transport "in quantity," the first such U.S. production contract. Powered by four Allison engines, the squat, bulbous C-130 is designed for quick shuttling of tactical weapons in airborne assaults, has a ramp for hustling trucks and howitzers aboard and a rear opening for air drops. Retooling for production of the C-130 will start shortly at Lockheed's big Marietta, Ga. plant...
Then came airliners and bombers. A Vickers Viscount liner swooped over the field with three of its four turboprop engines feathered, and did a climbing turn. A Canberra jet bomber whirled in acrobatics as if it were a carnival stunt plane. A Comet jet liner lumbered down the runway, then jumped steeply into the air, pushed by rocket boosters...
...Turboprop Transports. Whether or not De Havilland could fill the order, the Britons were already making new claims to commercial jet supremacy. This week, at the annual Farnborough show, they will fly the world's first turboprop transports,† Bristol's 104-passenger Britannia, Vickers' 40-to-53-passenger Viscount. These turboprops are designed for nonstop runs too long (e.g., the North Atlantic) for the Comet to fly, or too sparsely traveled (e.g., to Sweden) to justify Comets...
...began fleshing out to something like World War II proportions. It now has a whopping $1 billion backlog- outranked only by Convair and Boeing-for fighters, transports and attack bombers. Douglas is now the only U.S. planebuilder making planes driven by every existing form of aircraft propulsion: piston engines, turboprop, jet and rocket. Employment has climbed to 45,000 and is expected to reach 100,000. Moreover, Douglas has plowed $1,000,000 into a Santa Monica, Calif. plant, where it is now building guided missiles for the Navy (the Sparrow) and the Army (the Nike...