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...defense purposes." In plain words, the Continental Air Defense Command now has added the sinew of the nuclear warhead. Atom-armed air-to-air rockets and surface-to-air missiles deployed in strategic places in the U.S. can, if need be, thunder into the path of any known enemy bomber...
...famed old North American, whose proud boast is that it has made more airplanes than any other company. With its F-100 Super Sabre due to be phased out, it has a newer F107 version competing with Republic Aviation's F-105 in a Mach 2 fighter-bomber program...
...also building the long-range ramjet Navaho missile. But development of better missiles may cut back the Navaho program by a sharp 90% in 1958. Yet North American expects to be in healthy shape. Along with Boeing, the company is deep in design studies for a radical new supersonic bomber. Even better, North American was one of the first to jump into rocket engines, and its Rocketdyne division has juicy contracts for missile projects, including the huge Martin and Convair ICBMs...
Aside from fighters, the budget cutbacks may also affect the production of other planes, mainly light bombers and transports. Douglas, for example, will phase out its twin-jet B66 bomber in 1958. It will also feel the budget pinch on its previous high hopes for the mammoth C-132 transport (see cut), a new turboprop aircraft that can carry 200,000 lbs. of cargo 3,500 miles at 450 m.p.h. speed. Instead of receiving a big contract, Douglas may in the end produce only a few of the planes. But it will still have a heavy backlog of orders...
...interceptor is the only fighter which everyone in the business agrees will not be cut back: production of the F-102 and its faster, more advanced version, called the F-106, will probably total 350. In addition, Convair is a big contractor in the Air Force's nuclear bomber project and the Atlas intercontinental missile. Furthermore, Convair also has its B58 Hustler, first big supersonic U.S. bomber, in the air as a possible interim weapon until missiles take over long-range bombardment duties. So far, Convair has orders for a test batch of 17 Hustlers, and has Air Force...