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Because the new composite materials can be formed into almost any shape, are extremely strong and durable, and weigh far less than metals of comparable strength, a ready market was available when they first appeared in the 1960s. The aircraft industry began using new composites for helicopter blades, turbojet fans and many other components-first plastics containing boron fibers. Then manufacturers began turning to fibers made of carbon or graphite (another form of carbon), which were less expensive and more versatile than the boron variety...
...story was decidedly downplayed: ten lines on the back page of Pravda, under the innocuous headline ANNOUNCEMENT. But the news was dramatic: a TU-104 turbojet of Aeroflot, the Soviet state airline, crashed last week after taking off from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on a flight to Leningrad. Readers did not learn how many people died (Western estimates range from 52 to 72), nor were they told that it was the fifth major Aeroflot crash this year. Still, the announcement was rare confirmation that the world's largest, least-known airline is far from perfect...
...heavy bombers (mostly aging B-52s) to only 135 Russian turbojet Bisons and turboprop Bears. But Soviet airspace is the most intensively defended in the world: 5,000 radar stations, 2,600 fighter interceptors, 12,000 highly accurate antiaircraft missiles. By contrast, U.S. air defense has been cut back. There are only a dozen squadrons of F106 fighters-mostly assigned to the Air National Guard-with a primary mission of intercepting Soviet bombers. With large-scale production already under way of the Backfire-a new, supersonic Soviet intercontinental warplane-Russia will narrow the bomber gap. Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force...
...quest for diversification, Mr. Mac has been trying for years to break into the ranks of civilian-airplane manufacturers. And he has been repeatedly frustrated. In the late 1950s, he sank $15 million into a four-engine turbojet transport intended to be a corporate plane or Air Force trainer. Nobody would buy it. "That was the time," says McDonnell ruefully, "that old Mac got doodlebugged again...
...unbearable. Not so with the government-owned Canadian National Railways, which last week announced that though it lost $60 million on 1965 passenger service, it has now ordered five of the turbotrains developed by the U.S.'s United Aircraft Corp. Even without roadbed improvements, these lightweight, low-slung, turbojet-powered whizbangs should be able to clip nearly an hour off the present five-hour Montreal-Toronto...