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...Defense Command also wants the Voodoo. Present interceptors can only stay at bomber altitude for seconds, make one pass and come back. The big Voodoos can stay at high altitudes for hours, attacking again and again. Altitude, stamina and a storehouse of weapons have replaced maneuverability as the big asset of an interceptor...
...call one of the critical decisions of World War II, refused to permit emergency development of the plane because "the Luftwaffe had disappointed him too often in the past with promises" of new developments. Later, piling blunder on blunder, Hitler ordered the new fighter rigged as a "blitz bomber" against the expected Western invasion. Technically incapable of the task, it never dropped a bomb on the Normandy beachhead...
...principle is to ignore Republican candidates. But this year the G.O.P.'s Bruce Alger refused to be ignored. He campaigned so busily that he even wandered into his opponent's own office in search of votes. Alger, 36, is a former Princeton footballer and World War II bomber pilot. His wife was a Nieman-Marcus model. Even when his lead was safe, Alger could not forget that he was a Republican running in Texas. Said he: "Don't count me in yet-I don't want to be presumptuous...
...directors' optimism was also based on some invigorating future prospects. Martin is busily turning out a wide range of products, including the B57 Canberra bomber, the Matador guided missile and the P5M flying boat for the Navy. In addition, Martin has the first high-speed jet Navy seaplane (the P6M) as well as a new Navy missile and a classified high-speed plane for which it just won a contract...
...Force last week announced that it has ordered production to begin on its first supersonic jet bomber, the B58 Hustler. To be built at Fort Worth by Consolidated Vultee, the B58 can carry the hydrogen bomb, but will have to be based at Alaskan or overseas fields because of its relatively short range. The new medium bomber will probably not replace the 600 m.p.h. B-47 for at least two years...