Word: turboprops
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...Algerian coast one day last week a Russian Ilyushin 18 turboprop airliner cruised along in the early afternoon sunshine. Alone in the blue skies at 28,000 ft., it had aboard the Soviets' figurehead of state, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev, 54, on his way to visit Guinea via a stopover in Morocco. At precisely 2:18 p.m. the Ilyushin got company...
...AIRLIFT EXPANSION will bring $120 million in business to Boeing for 30 C-135 jet transports and $80 million to Lockheed for an additional 23 C-130 turboprop transports. Jet deliveries will start in June at the rate of two a month; C-130 deliveries, already at the rate of four a month, will be boosted to eight...
...beginning, the sleek, up-to-date four-engined turboprop llyushin 18 was the pride of Russia's propagandists. But last August, Russian authorities were forced to announce the crash of an IL-18 flying from Cairo to Moscow because several Afro-Asian notables happened to be among the 27 killed (TIME, Sept. 5). After the crash the IL-18 was briefly grounded. The trouble seemed to be with the engine mountings (as with its U.S. counterpart, the Lockheed Electra) and with the engines. But IL-18s kept landing at African airfields as Russia's contribution...
...privilege to fly." His testimony seemed in direct conflict with the views of his own airline, which only the day before in Dallas had filed a $2,400,000 suit against Lockheed Aircraft, the Electra's maker, and General Motors, which supplied the plane's Allison turboprop engines, charging that the Electra was "negligently and carelessly planned, designed, manufactured and inspected." The suit was based on the 1959 crash of one of Braniff's Electras near Buffalo, Texas, which was blamed on a structural failure of the wing root-the same failure that knocked another Electra from...
...neat and perfectly cut, with a rococo touch here and there. Loewe is a bit rumpled, his predilections turning more to wine, women, and when the need arises song. Lerner smokes, and has a habit of twirling the ignited cigarette in his fingers like the active end of a turboprop. Loewe has given up smoking, but when the jade palls he constantly keeps an unlit cigarette in his hand, gradually flattening and shredding it as he talks. He pinches away a pack a day, recently changed brands...