View of Jetprop Plane

(Original Caption) Aircraft industry largest family of jetprop transports forms a pow panorama at locheeds flight line in Burbank California, symbolizing the company record 335,000,000 volume of transport sales in 1955. This scene demonstrates lockheeds emphasis on jetprops in readiness for manufacture of new, 410-mph electra jet and propeller airliners with 16 worth $185,000,000 ordered since last June. Planes shown above are, foreground, a huge US Navy Jetprop super constellation R7V2; left, lofty tail of a US Air Force Herculfs c130, assault transport now in production at lockheeds Georgia division; center, the original constellation, now a laboratory plane flying on three piston engines and one new allison T-56 Jetprop to test the type of powerplant for Hercules and electras; right, a 1049 series. (Photo by © Bettmann/CORBIS/Bettmann Archive)