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Speed: faster than the B-47. Range: comparable to the B-36. Even such hard-to-please pilots as SAC's cigar-chomping General Curtis LeMay found few faults...
...walled-off section of Boeing's airplane factory near Seattle last week, General Curtis LeMay, boss of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, scrambled under scaffolding to inspect the giant, four-jet 707, the first jet transport built in the U.S. Said LeMay: "Quite an airplane. A versatile baby that really ought to make the British look...
...General LeMay was thinking of Boeing's swept-wing 707 as a rival for Britain's Comet jetliners as well as a flying tanker-transport to refuel his jet bombers in midair. To Boeing, which has built more than 600 of LeMay's six-jet B-47 bombers and is now turning out the eight-jet B-52, the big plane was also a lot more than just an aerial nursemaid. Boeing President William M. Allen thinks his new 707 has an even greater future as the first U.S. commercial jet transport, and has gambled $20 million...
...getting on target and back to a friendly base. Members of select and lead crews usually get spot promotions to the next highest grade. But their skills are constantly being evaluated -in the squadron, in the wing, and every six months by a two-week special check by LeMay's personal examiners. If a select or lead crew falls behind in bombing, navigation or whatever, it loses its promotions...
Stability is one thing that Nate Twin-ing's Air Force-in common with the Navy and Army-does not have. "This whole thing could go to hell in two weeks." says Curt LeMay. Why? "People." It takes two years of a four-year enlistment to train a ground-crew chief, engine mechanic, radar technician or flight engineer...