Word: turboprops
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...long wings powered by ¼h.p. electric motors at their tips. Spurred by a $65,000 Navy contract, the firm is now studying the prospect of building full-size Aerocranes with spheres as large as 180 ft. across and wings of 126 ft. Powered by four 4,000-h.p. turboprop wing engines, the giant ship should be able to lift weights up to 90 tons-more than twice as much as any existing helicopter. Spinning slowly (8.6 r.p.m.), it will cruise cross-country at a speed of 47 m.p.h. with its crew sitting in a nonrotating cab suspended beneath...
...history of both countries. By week's end, the Russians had flown about 9,000 tons of military gear to Egypt and Syria. Most of it was carried aboard AN-12 cargo carriers-similar to the American C-130-and by Russia's largest air transports, the turboprop AN-22, which has a payload of 80 tons (30 tons less than the giant U.S. C-5A Galaxy). The Soviets also transported an unknown quantity of supplies by ship from Black Sea ports through the Bosporus to the Syrian ports of Tartus and Latakia and to Alexandria in Egypt...
Fighting a blinding snowstorm, the four-engine Vanguard turboprop locked onto the approach system at Basel-Mulhouse Airport and received permission to land. Inside Invicta International Airlines' flight "Oscar Papa" were 138 passengers, most of them housewives from neighboring towns in southern England on a package "shopping tour" to Switzerland. They were singing and chatting when they received routine orders to fasten their seat belts and were told: "We will be landing at Basel Airport within ten minutes." Oscar Papa never made...
...Johnson's bedroom and found him crumpled on the floor. His face was already blue from lack of oxygen, his right eye and cheekbone bruised from the fall. Too late, the agents attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, then tried external heart massage, then carried him to his private turboprop at the ranch landing field. By the time the plane reached San Antonio a quarter of an hour later, the agents knew that the 36th President of the United States was dead...
Toboggan. When the F-27 took off again, the storm had abated, but the flight over the Andes proved to be rough going. Still in a holiday mood, the rugby players happily yelled "?Ole!" or "?Conga!" each time the turboprop hit an air pocket. But then, recalled Roberto Canessa, a 19-year-old medical student, "I looked out as we turned and saw a mountain only a few feet away." Without warning, the plane hit a peak and slid like a toboggan for half a mile down an 80° slope. When the plane finally stopped in a huge snowdrift...