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...about the fringes of the chaos of the U.S.'s first moves into missilery. As early as 1950 he was one of the very few-and very unpopular-airmen who did not like the Air Force's cherished B-52. Schriever argued obstinately for a lighter, faster bomber that could fire air-to-ground missiles...
Developed by Engineer Leonard S. ("Luke") Hobbs. now United Aircraft's vice chairman, the J57 has been in production since 1953, powers Boeing's eight-engine B-52 heavy bomber and four-engine KC-135 jet tanker-transport, Convair's supersonic F102 interceptor and five other military planes. Soon the even bigger J75 will go into two more important planes, Convair's supersonic F106 interceptor and Republic's F-105 fighter-bomber. To add to its horsepower riches, Pratt & Whitney has important military contracts for a smaller J52 jet engine and a T57 turboprop...
...Pentagon is that in the horsepower race the rest of the industry seems to be fighting a losing competitive battle. General Electric, which claims to have delivered more jet engines than any other manufacturer, lost its bread-and-butter J47 engine contract with the end of B-47 medium-bomber production. To replace it, G.E. has a new J79 engine (about 15,000-lb. thrust) for Convair's supersonic B58 bomber and Lockheed's F-104A Starfighter. Yet the four-jet B58 Hustler is far from quantity production, and the F104 program may be slowed down (TIME...
...issue, you say the price of a B-52 jet bomber is said to be $8,000,000; in another story the price is said to be $6,000,000. Which...
...from boron. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. won $33,005,000 Air Force contract for a new high-energy chemical-fuel plant near Niagara Falls. In addition to stepping up range and speed of present missiles and jets, new fuels will make possible radical new top-secret Air Force chemical bomber, for which North American and Boeing have design contracts...