Word: turboprops
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...France Turbo Chief pumper, which was undergoing performance tests in San Francisco last week, got its impressive pep from a gas turbine engine, the first ever used in a fire truck, and the latest of the expanding uses of gas turbines. Although gas turbines first came of age in turboprop planes, they promise to have a much bigger future in powering everything from road-building machinery to motor boats and refrigeration systems...
...Estonia. But he did not regret his decision. "I am not a man of speeches," he said. "I did it that I should no longer be encaged." At week's end Baltika sailed away, with out Jaanimets and without Khrushchev & Co., who had already gone home by turboprop. Instead, Baltika had a new car go: three cars (Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Comet), TV sets, air conditioners and a seven-ton truckload of capitalist loot for VIPs to take back...
...Nikita Khrushchev's huge, white Tupolev turboprop last week made the nonstop flight from New York to Moscow, millions in the West were relieved that the long, intemperate harangue was over. U.S. Delegate James Wadsworth pointed out that Khrushchev "once again has laid down the gauntlet and said to 98 other countries here, 'You should...
...plane's four Allison turboprop engines were recovered from the water, shipped to General Motors' Allison division in Indianapolis. There, Civil Aeronautics Board crash detectives began taking them apart piece by piece. They found evidence that the No. 1 or outboard engine on the left wing had been shut down and feathered by the pilot, indicating that he was coping with an emergency. CAB believes that the three other engines were delivering power, or at least some measure of power, when the plane crashed...
Dead Starlings. Just back from a tour of the Soviet Union, and not even unpacked, Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood ("Pete") Quesada flew in to head the investigation. He had good reason: Eastern's Flight 375 was the fifth Electra crash since the big four-engined turboprop planes went into service two years ago, and it was he who had opposed grounding 140 still flying. At least two of the crashes could be charged to pilot error, but study of others-mid-air disintegration over Indiana and Texas-had disclosed serious structural flaws. Weak ened outboard engine nacelles tended...