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...MERGER will put Northrop Aircraft, Inc. in helicopter business if talks with Pennsylvania's Vertol Aircraft Corp. succeed. Northrop wants to swap two shares of stock for one (542,100 shares outstanding) of Vertol, add Vertol's growing (1955 sales: $58 million) helicopter business to its F89 interceptor and Snark guided-missile production...
...plane looks like a bigger, burlier version of Convair's supersonic F-102 jet fighter interceptor: like the F-102, it has a needle-nosed, coke-bottle fuselage with sharply swept delta wings and high, shark's-fin tail. The Hustler appears to be about 100 ft. long 60 ft. from wingtip to wingtip, roughly comparable to the current Air Force standby, Boeing's 600-m.p.h. B-47 medium bomber. But where the B-47 has six General Electric J47 (5,800 lbs. of thrust) engines, Convair's new B58 gets its supersonic hustle from only...
...favorite dream of airplane designers is a VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) that will leap into the air like a helicopter, fly as fast as a jet interceptor, and land vertically. Helicopters cannot be upgraded to do this job: they are inherently too slow. The Navy's "Pogo" (Convair XFY-I) takes off and lands vertically, but it has propellers and therefore can never fly as fast as a jet. Many other types have been tried (movable wings, swiveled engines, folding rotors), but none of them show promise of matching the designers' dream...
...thrust to weight-even with the low-power figures still published by the security-morbid U.S. Department of Defense-is climbing rapidly. For the F-86 Sabre jet the ratio is four to ten. For the British Gloster Javelin it is six to ten. For the newest U.S. interceptor, the Lockheed F-104A, it is about eight to ten. Only 25% more thrust (or less weight) would theoretically free the F-104A from take-off runs. This is so close, says Hinz, that a true jet VTOL should not be far away...
...designed the propeller for the famed Spad fighter of World War I. At 60 he designed and built France's first topflight jet fighter, the sweptwing, transonic Mystère. Last week Dassault, now 64, showed off his latest marvel, the Mirage, a lightweight, 1,000-m.p.h. interceptor...