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...from its launching platform at Florida's Patrick Air Force base one day last week swooshed a hot U.S. challenger in the East-West missiles race-the Snark,* a huge (74 ft. long, 7 tons), turbojet-propelled, surface-to-surface guided missile, i.e., a winged pilotless bomber, with speeds up to 600 m.p.h. and intercontinental range (at least 5,000 miles). Radar-checked and ground-controlled, it whizzed southeast down the Caribbean along the 5,000-mile U.S. test range that extends -by agreement with Britain-from Florida to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. Its flight plan...
Personality: A passionate adherent to the Foreign Office's "cult of anonymity," bald, grey-eyed Careerman Caccia is a walking file on British policy problems, works quietly and effectively behind scenes, is quick and droll at the conference table. When the Russians accused the British of building a bomber base in postwar Vienna ("It was really only a flivver strip"), Caccia said that he would deliver a case of whisky if they could land a twin-engined plane there, added: "You pay the funeral expenses." The Russians dropped the complaint. Speaks French, German, Italian, Greek and a little Mandarin...
...Middle River, Md., on a routine test flight. As it yowled along at 22,000 to 25,000 ft. it was a thing of demonic beauty; with its 100-ft. swept-back wings, its slender 134-ft. hull and its four Allison J-71 jet engines, the seagoing bomber was capable of carrying a 30,000 Ib. pay load to 40,000ft. heights and at speeds over 600 m.p.h. Then, in an instant, the plane burst into flames, went out of control into a steep dive, crashed in a field near Wilmington, Del. The four-man civilian crew parachuted...
...Without miniaturization," says Rear Admiral Rawson Bennett, Chief of Naval Research, "much of the electronics equipment now in ships and planes and many of the Navy's newest weapons would be impossible." Miniaturized computers, radar sets, fire-control mechanisms and radios are the heart of every U.S. jet bomber and fighter. Today's war planes are controlled by little black boxes so compact that to service a unit, Air Force mechanics simply remove the box, install...
Martin as chief engineer (1915); of a heart ailment, a month after he retired as president, became board chairman of Bell Aircraft Co.; in Buffalo. Larry Bell helped develop an early "bomber" before joining Martin (converted from a Martin exhibition plane, stocked with dynamite-filled gas pipes and sold to Pancho Villa), by 1935 had launched his own firm (estimated 1956 sales: $200 million). Planemaker Bell in 1944 produced the U.S.'s first jet fighter, the Airacomet, made helicopters, missiles and the famed X-1 and X-2 rocket planes, which have broken all speed, altitude records...