Word: turboprop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...million contract to Lockheed for the single-jet F-104A, which USAF Chief of Staff General Nathan Twining describes as "the fastest, highest-flying fighter in the air anywhere." The order follows a $100 million contract placed by Eastern Air Lines last month for 40 Lockheed Electra turboprop airliners and an Air Force order last fortnight for "over $100 million" worth of C-130A Hercules cargo planes, boosting Lockheed's backlog to over $1.4 billion...
Eastern Air Lines' Captain Eddie Rickenbacker last week plotted the course that will take his airline into the jet age with a rush. In Manhattan Chairman Rickenbacker announced a $350 million, five-year plan for three new fleets of airliners -piston, turboprop and pure jet-to be paid for out of Eastern's future earnings and put into service in three giant steps...
...then, says Rickenbacker, he will have a fleet of 218 multiengined airliners-60 jet and turboprop "express liners," 60 local-service twin-engined ships, plus 98 four-engined "super air-coach" planes. All told, the fleet will treble Eastern's current carrying capacity to 20 million passengers annually flying 15 billion miles. Says Rickenbacker: "Air transportation should make more progress in the next ten years than we have been able to accomplish in the past...