Word: turboprops
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...will build in the shipyard it bought last January from Bethlehem Steel. In Groton, Conn., General Dynamics launched its first civilian submarine, a research sub for the University of Pennsylvania. It also broke ground for a lime-processing plant in Detroit and delivered a 160-passenger CL-44 turboprop plane to Icelandic Airlines. Altogether, General Dynamics has rebounded from a 1961 loss of $143 million-the largest deficit ever suffered by any U.S. corporation-to a 1963 profit of $50 million on sales of $1.4 billion...
Five thousand feet high and 40 miles out of San Francisco, a Pacific Air Lines turboprop F-27 checked in with the approach control tower at nearby Oakland. The radio conversation was routine until the last transmission from the plane, which was garbled. Control called: "Say again." But at that very moment the F-27 was screaming toward the earth to crash in an explosion of flame...
...halfway to Moscow aboard an Aeroflot TU-114 turboprop before the Cuban people were told that he was gone. Even to his Russian hosts, Fidel Castro's visit seemed a surprise. Only two welcoming banners could be seen hanging in the 21° cold at Vnukovo airport. But out rolled a Red carpet, and Premier Nikita Khrushchev was on hand to snuggle into the beard when the Maximum Leader came bounding down the ramp...
...Germany, and was anxious to sell the Germans something else-its C-130 Hercules transport, one model of which the company had specially revamped to fit certain German requirements. All that Lockheed had to do was persuade Bonn to drop a planned Franco-German project to build the Transall turboprop transport. But the Germans could not drop Transall-for Transport Alliance-without affronting the French, who have already ordered 50 planes. Germany's renascent airframe industry, also, needs the work that the Transall would provide. And there was a further international consideration; by buying Rolls-Royce engines...
...thin welcoming crowd was not exactly eager to make him an honorary citizen. Minutes before Khrushchev's turboprop landed at Schonefeld Airport, an announcer drilled the spectators in a proper greeting: "Now, when our friend steps out of his plane, we will all cheer in unison, hip, hip, hurrah." When Nikita stepped out of his plane, all smiles, the crowd was silent and only the honor guard of soldiers shouted, officially. In contrast to President Kennedy's welcome by more than a million West Berliners, a scant 250,000 East Berlin factory workers, secretaries and schoolchildren, marching...