Word: interceptor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delta-winged, wasp-waisted Convair F106 interceptor, piloted by Major Joseph W. Rogers of Worthington, Ohio, took off from Edwards Air Force Base and climbed to 40,000 ft. (jets are slow at low altitude). Air conditions were ideal; the aircraft and its Pratt & Whitney J-75 engine were new but carefully chosen. In earlier tests, the engine had been revved up until its temperature reached the highest permissible level, and the fuel-input control was set at that point...
...Force. Down from this year's $19 billion to $18.2 billion, the Air Force is holding its B58 supersonic-bomber planning to a maximum of three wings, is phasing out purchases of its F-105 fighter-bomber and F106 interceptor. Last week the Air Force announced plans to shut down Ethan Allen Air Force Base in Vermont. NATO was warned that its tactical air strength in Europe might be cut back by three Air Force F-100 nuclear fighter-bomber wings, or 225 planes. The deployment in Europe of the Thor and Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic-missile squadrons would...
Healy, 62, accepted invitations from the Air Defense Command to witness an interceptor missile shoot called Project William Tell II at Tyndall Air Force Base (near Panama City, Fla.)-and, incidentally, to absorb some good-natured press-agentry that would help still public complaints over loud jet noises and chimney-rattling sonic booms...
...aircraft) is scheduled to become operational in only five years. It will be costly: prototypes will run upwards of $150 million apiece, and the whole program will run to $3.5 billion by 1965. A Defense Department budget slash last week killed off plans for the last far-out supersonic interceptor, the Mach3 North American F-108. Air Force flyboys trust and hope that the $2.4 billion savings will help support the B70 project when it comes under the budget fire of the pushbutton corps...
...Canada about to bow out as a full partner in manning NATO's European shield? Until a few months ago, any such notion was inconceivable. Yet in the letdown after Ottawa's cancellation of the all-Canadian Avro Arrow jet interceptor -which the government used as the occasion to write Canada off as a military air power (TIME, March 2)-some members of the Conservative government want to cut back Canada's contribution to NATO. Last week NATO's General Lauris Norstad spent 2¼ hours before Canada's Cabinet in worried entreaty for renewed...