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With bated breath and crossed fingers, the Navy has been watching the flight tests of the Martin XP6M-1 SeaMaster, the world's first multi-jet sea bomber. This week it authorized Glenn L. Martin Co. to say that it considers the SeaMaster "unusually promising." Behind the development of the SeaMaster is a vigorous bid by the Navy to capture an important chunk of the military flying business...
...length and wing span to a big airliner. Its four Allison J71 turbojet engines with take-off afterburners can get it into the air with a 30,000-lb. payload and push it faster than 600 m.p.h. at 40,000-ft. altitude. These characteristics make it a medium bomber, although its Navy sponsors, for fear of antagonizing the Air Force's Strategic Air Command and the Navy's own airplane-carrier partisans, prefer to call it a "mine layer." Portable Base. If the SeaMaster proves out as its friends hope, it will add a new dimension to long...
Eight-inch shells weigh about 240 Ibs.; so the bomb itself will not weigh more than that, and it may weigh much less since the casing may be lighter than the steel parts of the shell. A fighter-bomber could carry 16 such bombs, each powerful enough to knock the heart out of a good-sized city. A B-47 could carry 50 or more of them on a long flight, and distribute them over a large industrial complex. Atomic shells for 8-in. guns are apparently an accomplished fact, although none has been tested in actual artillery. Next step...
Eden left Chequers in a helicopter (the first British Prime Minister to travel in one) and flew straight to Farnborough, site of Britain's famed annual air show. There, with his grey head tilted back over his immaculate white collar, he studied the performance of the flashy jet bombers and fighters on which his government will spend most of its defense money. Most spectacular of the zooming jet planes was a delta-wing Vulcan bomber, that slow-rolled over the field. "Would you like to fly home in one?" an official asked. "Yes, but no rolls," the Prime Minister...
Test Pilot Roland Falk had been kidded by the press when he claimed he could roll his Vulcan, a delta-wing bomber the size of a big airliner. Last week, although scheduled only to make a low pass over the field, he rolled the great bomber like a jet fighter. Said a U.S. Air Force colonel: "I've never seen such a thing in my life." Said Falk: "I dared not ask them to let me do it. They might have said...