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WESTINGHOUSE will lose its job as a supplier of Navy jet engines because of development troubles. After calling off work on the 10,000-lb.-thrust J40 engine (originally slated to power the Grumman F10F, Douglas F4D, etc.), the Navy has now announced that production of the smaller J46 (about 6,000-lb.-thrust) engine used in the Chance Vought F7U Cutlass will run out towards the end of the year, thus eliminating Westinghouse from the Navy engine program...
...brought $1.2 billion in Air Force contracts to planemakers in three months, has spread to the Navy's air arm, which spent $700 million for new equipment in October alone. Biggest contracts: $194 million to United Aircraft Corp. for jet engines, propellers and helicopters; $165 million to Grumman Aircraft, mostly for its new supersonic F9F9 "Coke Bottle" jet fighter (TIME...
...Grumman Wildcats droned over the Atlantic, 100 miles off Cap Blanc, on search mission. At almost the same moment, each pilot spotted what he was looking for: the dark, sharklike outline of a German U-boat, slipping along just under the waves. Simultaneously, the two planes flashed the warning, "Sighted sub," back to their flattop, the Guadalcanal, known to her crew as the Can Do. As the carrier's five destroyer escorts closed in and depth charges spumed up, the submarine jammed her diving planes into the down position...
...growing arsenal of supersonic warplanes, the U.S. last week added still another jet fighter,-this one for the Navy. At Calverton, L.I., Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. lifted the security lid for a quick view of its F9F9 "Tiger." The plane looks as ferocious as its name. Designed for carrier operations, it has a short, solid snout, an undulating, "coke bottle" fuselage, and drooping, knife-thin wings. For armament, it will carry air-to-air rockets, possibly Sperry Gyroscope Co.'s new Sparrow missile, now in mass production. Top speed: top secret, but the plane weighs less than...
Though the Tiger has only flown a few times, the Navy is so impressed that it has already given Grumman a $40 million experimental and production contract for an estimated 40 to 50 planes. The company cannot say when the first production model will roll off the lines. But Grumman, which had its famed World War II Hellcat in Navy squadrons before the roof was even on its Bethpage, L.I. plant, managed to turn out the Tiger prototype in just 15 months, has designed it specifically for fast, easy production...