Word: turboprops
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...million in expansion plans to add another 1,320,000 tons of capacity. In aviation, National Airlines, which has already ordered six pure-jet Douglas DC-8s, took another step into the new air age with a $46 million order for 20 new 415-m.p.h. Lockheed Electra turboprop transports...
Last week Curtice and Eastern Air Lines Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker jointly announced that Eastern's 40 new Lockheed Electra airliners, scheduled for service in 1958, will be powered by $26 million worth of Allison turboprop engines...
...manager. Since he had reached retirement age (65) two months ago, Captain Eddie could have stepped out and collected about $30,000 yearly in pension and consultant's fee. But Eastern is well into the biggest expansion program in its history ($350 million for fleets of new piston, turboprop and jet airliners), and wanted to keep Captain Eddie around to handle...
...Comet disasters cost Britain upwards of $30 million. Another plane-the Bristol Brabazon-was designed to carry 100 passengers nonstop across the Atlantic, but it turned into a Rube Goldberg nightmare. Four other big airliners-the Armstrong Whitworth Apollo turboprop, the Handley Page Hermes, the Avro Tudor and the $6.4 million Vickers 1000-also had little success and were scrapped...
BOAC hopes to put the Bristol Britannia, a four-engined turboprop, in service across the Atlantic by 1957, fly the ocean nonstop at 400 m.p.h...