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...figures that the space plane can use an existing rocket motor to push it with an acceleration that the pilot can stand. Best take-off procedure will probably be to launch it into the air from the belly of a high-flying bomber. According to ONR's plans, the pilot will retain complete control of his craft, steering it with control surfaces while still in the atmosphere. When the air thins out too much" to be used for steering, he will control the plane's altitude by firing small rockets set at an angle to the fuselage...
...every Government agency that can take a hand is planning to help the National Hurricane Research Project. From Trinidad to Florida, 27 stations will launch weather balloons and record the radio reports on the weather they pass through. The Air Force will send flying laboratories into each hurricane. B50 bombers will take care of altitudes from 1,000 to 25,000 ft., and a B-47 jet-bomber crew will make runs between 30,000 and 45,000 ft. All the planes will bristle with instruments to measure everything from the temperature to electrical conditions in the air or clouds...
...great a leap over its F-86 Sabrejet of Korean war fame as the Sabre itself was over World War II's P-51 Mustang. Long and lethal-looking with 45° swept-back wings, the F-100 is the first operational fighter-and fighter bomber-to crack the sound barrier in level flight, broke the official world's record by flying 822 m.p.h. last year. Even then it was under wraps; estimates are that it can top 1,000 m.p.h. with its Pratt & Whitney J57 engine and afterburner going full blast...
...McDonnell Aircraft's F101 Voodoo, a big, 45,000-lb., long-range (estimated at 1,500 mi.) bomber-escort which can also be used as an interceptor or fighter-bomber. Scheduled for operational service this year, it is powered by two J-57s, has a ceiling of 50,000 ft. plus. Speed: around 1,100 m.p.h...
Nike. In the antiaircraft division, the Army has the well-publicized Nike (rhymes with Mikey), a liquid-fuel rocket launched by a solid-fuel booster and steered toward invading bombers by radio. The Nike dates back to the Keller era and is not the last word, but the Army believes that it will hit any attacking bomber sent over in the near future. Admittedly the Nike is a point defense weapon with only moderate lateral range. But the Army has so many Nike batteries at strategic points that their ranges already overlap...