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Aviation History
1959
1959 - 0331.PDF
160-161 FLIGHT, 30 January 1959 TURBINE TRANSPORTS IT is a salutary reminder of the pace of airline re-equipment that no piston-enginedaircraft are being built for trunk-route operation anywhere in the world. Instead, factories of sis nations are pouring out a flood of new transports capable of providing a smooth,swift ride by gas-turbine power. Largest and heaviest airliner in the western world is the Boeing 707 Intercontinental,and the first of these is portrayed in the magnificent study on the right. This machine, ; which flew more than 7 hr in the first two days after its initial flight on January 11, ispowered by Pratt and Whitney JT-4 engines, but a considerable number of these enlarged Boeings—including the fifteen for B.O.A.C.—will have improved performanceconferred by Rolls-Royce Conways. Rolls-Royce jets, in this case civil Avons, also power the Sud Caravelle (above), founder of a fashion with its aft-mounted engines andpurchased by six airlines. Below is one of the thirty-odd F-27 Friendships (two R-R. Darts) already producedby Fairchild under licence from Fokker. The example shown is in service with Piedmont Airlines, one of the largest of the American local-service operators, who will shortlyhave a full fleet of eight (which they call Pacemakers) serving a network of 50 towns in the eastern U.S. The fourth turbine transport pictured here is the IPyushin 11-18 Moskva,which is powered by four 4,000 s.h.p. Kuznetsov NK.4 turboprops and can seat up to 100 passengers. Last week the 11-18 went into scheduled service on Aeroflot's northernroutes, and military versions will be used by the transport arm of the Soviet Air Force. *.me* '
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