Word: turboprop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safety and schedule, the full presidential fleet that takes off this week will be made up of four aircraft (plus a chartered Pan American 707 jet for the press); two VC-137A plush versions of the Boeing 707 jet-the President's and an identical spare-and two turboprop MATS Hercules cargo planes carrying six skilled mechanics apiece and a variety of spare parts, including a complete, ready-to-install jet engine. The two cargo planes are assigned a leapfrogging schedule that will keep one of them always one stop ahead of the President. Eight specially trained Air Force...
...achieved my goals and even surpassed them," Kubitschek said as he sprawled out in his personal turboprop Viscount, his shoes, coat and tie off, and his toes wriggling happily. "They say it's madness to go so fast. We have to go fast. We have 63 million people and nearly 2,000,000 more people every year to feed, clothe, to supply with power and tools and the essentials of life." He points to his record: 1956 auto production zero, this year 170,000; 1956 oil production 5,000 bbl. a day, this year...
...trim Fokker Friendship turboprop that touched down at Washington's National Airport last week was not as big as Nikita Khrushchev's big TU-114, but the welcome accorded its distinguished passenger was every bit as impressive-and considerably more cordial. As Mexico's President Adolfo López Mateos stepped out, a thundering 21-gun salute split the air; the U.S. Army Band rolled through Mexico's national anthem; a 231-man honor guard snapped to attention. On the red carpet stood Dwight Eisenhower, all smiles. "Bienvenido," said Ike, giving his guest a warm Latin...
...Companies are dropping out because the industry's capacity is far higher than the demand for planes. There are so few orders that major planemakers are building for stock-putting together planes and praying that they will be sold one day. A buyer can get delivery of a turboprop Viscount or Britannia in two to three months, v. twelve months for a U.S. Lockheed Electra...
Vickers, whose turboprop Viscount was the great postwar success story of British civil aviation, has sold more than 400 of them. But it expects to end the Viscount run in 1960. The Viscount's successor, the Vanguard, which was first shown off last week, has a bare 40 orders from British European Airways and Trans-Canada Air Lines, far fewer than needed to break even. Bristol, whose turboprop Britannia was slowed by bugs, has sold only...