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...speed of sound. Five new types of swept-wing jet fighters flashed past, outracing the banshee wail of their engines. Column after column of MIG-15s paraded over the crowd, followed by 100 four-engine Russian copies of the U.S. B29, seaplanes, amphibians, a new twin-jet naval light bomber. Nine helicopters whirled up, rainbows of parachutists floated down from huge transports...
...long way to go before they can count a well-rounded air force. Hoyt Vandenberg's lessons on strategic air power have been hard to learn. Air Force Chief Vershinin has been kicked out, and Colonel General Pavel Zhigarev is now belatedly building up Russia's heavy bomber fleet...
...Reds have about 1,000 heavy bombers, mostly direct copies of a number of U.S. B-29s that made forced landings in Siberia in World War II. The B-29s yielded the Russians their design plus the Norden bombsight.* The U.S.S.R. called its well-made copy the TU-4. Unless and until the Russians pour out their new heavier bomber, they are behind the B-36, and even farther behind the new eight-jet B-52 bomber, which, when it gets into production, will be able to hit Russia from 50,000 feet at 600 m.p.h. in any weather...
...Tupolev). Three-man, twin-jet attack bomber (resembles Britain's Canberra). Speed, 530 m.p.h.; range, unknown; bombload, 6,500 Ibs.; armament, two nose-mounted 30-mm. cannon, two 20-mm. cannon in the tail. Beginning production...
...first bout with Argentina's Cesar Brion last November, former Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis squeaked by with a close decision. Last week, in San Francisco, aging (37) Joe Louis looked a little more like the old Brown Bomber. His left jab cut rugged Cesar Brion's face to ribbons, twice had him on the verge of a knockout before Louis won a unanimous decision at the final bell...