Word: prop-driven
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...hills taken or Chinese hordes repelled. ("How many Chinese in a horde?" the gag used to be.) With Wirephotos from Tokyo, still photographers regularly beat the infant TV industry; television cameramen had to ship their film halfway round the world to San Francisco, a 36-hour flight in those prop-driven days...
...farce in the situation were underlined with tragedy. There was talk of a coup, and the guard around the presidential palace was reinforced. Saigon gossips began adding up the forces loyal to Vice President Ky, which are thought to include some marine, airborne and armor battalions, plus six prop-driven Skyraiders at Tan Son Nhut airbase. The U.S. command placed all American installations on alert, mainly to keep G.I.s off the streets of cities where short-lived but ugly anti-American riots had broken out last week...
...less spectacular type of spy plane is the slower patrol aircraft that measures radar capabilities and eavesdrops obliquely on enemy radio communications from a distance. The plodding, prop-driven EC-121 shot down by North Korean MIGs last week is a military version of the Super Constellation airliner. The EC-121 is an ungainly bird, its basically graceful lines awkwardly broken by wartlike plastic radar domes above and below the fuselage. Four piston engines give it a cruising speed of only 300 m.p.h., but it has immense range. It can fly 6,500 miles, staying aloft for more than...
...many optimistic and thoroughly modern citizens, the American Dream of the 1930s included not only a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage, but also an Autogiro in every backyard. Chickens and cars have proliferated, but the Autogiro-a prop-driven aircraft with a freewheeling rotor in place of a wing-has virtually disappeared, a victim of its own inefficiencies and the remarkable success of the helicopter. The dream may yet come true. California's McCulloch Aircraft Corp. has successfully test-flown a contemporary Autogiro that is safer than a conventional plane, less expensive than...
...Special Forces led by local guides. Occasionally, when a Communist troop concentration is firmly fixed, South Vietnamese units as large as a company slip across for a swift, unpublicized strike. But the main job of harassment is carried out by the Royal Laotian Air Force's 25-odd prop-driven T-28 fighter-bombers and U.S. jets out of Thailand, which bomb the heavy traffic on the trail around the clock under the euphemism of "armed reconnaissance...