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...those figures stack up against U.S. strength, present and planned? At the moment, the Air Force has little better than nine fighter-bomber wings-some 675 aircraft-available for support of U.S. ground forces overseas. The bulk of them are in Korea. In the blueprint for a 95-wing Air Force, there will be roughly 18 tactical wings of this kind, equivalent to one for each of the contemplated 18 U.S. divisions. At best, the 95-wing Air Force, properly equipped with the newest airplanes, is still at least 18 months away...
...flow lines," had thus channeled men and materials away from current production. In Santa Monica, Douglas Aircraft plucked skilled supervisors from its assembly lines, shipped them and a batch of machine tools to Tulsa as the nucleus of a new production staff for the six-jet Boeing B-47V bomber. And instead of "freezing" their designs for mass production, most manufacturers were slowing down production from time to time, retooling for improved models...
...airframe makers are hitched to that schedule. Fairchild is making only eight of its cargo-carrying Cng "Flying Boxcars" a month, could produce 20 if it could get engines. Boeing is sitting on part of its billion-dollar backlog, waiting for Pratt & Whitney engines for its B50 medium bomber...
This problem became acute when he wrote "Interceptor Mission" (TIME, April 2), a crackling account of the radar-guided jet fighters which guard the Atlantic coastline against enemy bomber attack. One of the first newsmen granted Air Force permission to fly in the F-94, he found himself pretzeled between canopy and parachute while rocketing around the cold night sky at 600 m.p.h. He once had the same trouble when he rode the two-seater version of the F80 Shooting Star, but found the B45 four-jet light bomber more comfortable...
...bomber approaches the target, it climbs to seven miles and every crew member dons arctic clothing and oxygen masks against the thin, cold air. Below, a radar unit keeps an eye on the plane's approach, checks the accuracy of its simulated bomb drop. Finally, while Detroit slumbers, unaware that it has been "demolished," the crew members relax from a job which-to them-is already routine. Audiences are more likely to find the trip fascinating, reassuring and, in all its implications, more than a little frightening...