A 290-pound jet engine that can add tons to an airliner’s carrying capacity when used as an adjunct to conventional piston power plants was developed by El Al Israel Airline and is now on display at the El Al overhaul base near New York International Airport. Although the powerful little “package” was developed for the Israeli airline, it will be made available to other airlines and the United States Air Force, it was indicated here today.
El Al’s jet “pods” were developed by Dr. Erich Schatzki, who is known the world over as an aeronautical engineer and designer. When ten of the jets are produced, they will be mounted in pairs on El Al’s five C-46 airliners and will add to each conventionally-powered plane an additional payload of 10,000 pounds. El Al which flies three Constellations on its trans-Atlantic route between New York and Tel Aviv, operates its C-46’s between London, Paris, Zurich, Rome and Athens.
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