Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...only civilian on the committee, Hopper has been associated with aviation since World War I when he fiew 29 bomber missions and when he also became acquainted with Spaatz...
...Hives put his hand to another new project. He reopened Rolls's huge Glasgow plant to mass-produce the new Avon jet engine (7,500-lb. thrust), successor to the Derwent and Nene (TIME, Oct. 16). The engines made there will go into the sleek Canberra twin-engine bomber, now being built in England for the R.A.F. and a bright possibility for the U.S. Air Force...
...flames are probably inefficient, using floods of fuel. But they will toss a fighter up to 40,000 feet in half the time that would be needed without them. For an interceptor like the F-94, a few minutes saved in climbing might mean success in downing an enemy bomber...
Though security regulations forced Dutch Kindelberger to keep mum, the industry had some plausible guesses on what new jobs had been handed to him. North American is already building the AJ-1, the Navy's first carrier-based bomber capable of carrying the atomic bomb. Its production will likely be stepped up at Columbus. There was also a strong hint that North American will begin production of McDonnell Aircraft's carrier-based Banshee jet fighter (TIME...
...were in Dutch's own words "obsolete before they got off the drawing board." It is now producing the F-86D and F-86E, and in Engineer Kindelberger's view, they are obsolete too. When the Navy wanted a long-range bomber big enough to carry the Abomb, it turned to Kindelberger. The result was the AJ-1, with one turbojet and two reciprocating engines...