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...designers are working on a supersonic intercontinental bomber, have another Air Force contract for an engineering study for nuclear-powered aircraft. In Boeing's top-secret electronics laboratory, others are busy with a $200 million development and production contract for Boeing's F99 "Bomarc," a pilotless interceptor plane to send after bombers. It is in the secret missiles that Boeing sees the aircraft of the future. Bill Allen and Wellwood Beall are convinced that the airplane and the missile are growing ever closer, will eventually become one and the same. When that day comes, Boeing's Allen...
...strengthen Western Europe's defenses, the U.S. last week gave the ground-to-ground guided missile its first major operational assignment. The Air Force announced that two squadrons of Martin B-61 Matadors, jet-propelled pilotless bombers capable of carrying atomic warheads, will be sent to West Germany this year and deployed "for use in NATO defenses." Although Defense Secretary Charles Wilson denied that the move would "in itself" mean a displacement...
Lockheed has had such success with experiments for a supersonic, pilotless craft that it is setting up a separate Missiles Systems Division to work full time on the project. Chief of the department: Lieut. General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, 49, commanding officer of the Ninth Tactical Air Command in World War II, who worked on missiles before retiring from the Air Force...
Tremendous numbers of men with training in electronics are now being hired in aviation. In the age of push-button warfare which we are now approaching, these men must design the devices which seek out the enemy and guide the pilotless aircraft...
...This jubilation was wildly off the mark. The Boxer experiments were, actually, a patchwork of relatively old techniques, far behind the modern technology of real guided missiles (rocket-or jet-propelled and guided by radar). Ten years ago, in World War II, the Navy itself had successfully used a pilotless plane, controlled by radio and aimed by television, in simulated attacks on a destroyer. In the same way, the Army had sent worn-out B-17s against German V-2 launching bases...