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...Minutes after it had surfaced off California's Point Mugu. the Navy's conventionally powered submarine Grayback launched a stubby-winged turbojet missile from its deck, quietly slipped back under the waves. With chase and control planes following closely. Chance Vought's Regulus II flew a guided, circuitous 200-mile route to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, where because of a landing-gear malfunction, it burned up on landing. But the landing was a technicality : the business version of Regulus II will pack a nuclear warhead on a 1,000-mile range, will give...
...coming of the turbojet will multiply the problems of airports that are crowded, inconvenient and sometimes dangerous even for today's DC-75. The jets will weigh 300,000 Ibs. fully loaded, v. 150,000 Ibs. for the largest piston-engine airliner now in use, making most present runways too short for safety, and the hot breath of jet-engine exhausts will melt many runway and taxi-strip surfaces. Moreover, since six jetliners arriving close together will disembark as many passengers as an ocean liner, the passenger, baggage and ticketing jams of today will pale beside tomorrow...
Just Like Steam. The charm of the free piston engine is that it has many of the advantages of the straight gas turbine with none of the main disadvantages. The glamorous turbojet that flies through the air with such wonderful ease is as helpless on a highway as a bat or a hummingbird. Even the workaday turboprop (a gas turbine that delivers power through a shaft, not through a jet of gas) is hard to adapt to ground uses. Chief failings: 1) poor fuel economy, especially at low speed. 2) cost of heat-resistant parts, 3) sluggish response when power...
...General Motors' Allison engine division and Westinghouse. which produced the first U.S.-designed turbojet, both have lost much ground. Though Allison leads the turboprop field and will produce the engines for Lockheed's C-130A Hercules transport and new Electra airliner, it has only a small slice of the big jet market. Finally, Westinghouse has been beset by so many engine bugs that it is pinning most of its hopes on the new, medium-sized J54 jet which it has developed with $12.5 million of its own funds, hopes to sell to the Navy and Air Force...
...join a union). More significant, as a sign of how U.S.-style enlightened capitalism looks at labor-management relations, was the unpublicized opposition, while the measure was in the legislative mill, of several Indiana big businessmen. Among them: executives of Radio Corp. of America, Seagrams (liquor), the Allison Division (turbojet engines) of General Motors, and Cummins Engine, which manufactures half the diesel engines that propel U.S. trucks...