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Died. Clark Blanchard Millikan, 62, California Institute of Technology aeronautics professor, a leading pioneer in wind-tunnel research and recipient, with his late father, Caltech Head Dr. Robert A. Millikan, of a 1949 Presidential Medal for Merit for their contribution to the development of the jet-assisted take-off rocket (1941) and the U.S.'s first successful high-altitude sounding rocket (the 1945 WAC Corporal); of congestive heart failure, in Pasadena, Calif...
Smooth Landing. Five chase planes circled overhead and two helicopters hovered solicitously, as the B70 began the take-off roll for its first cautious flight. Just 33 seconds after Chief Test Pilot Al White released the brakes, Cecil was airborne, climbing steeply. The stiltlike forward landing gear retracted properly, but the main wheel gear jammed, halfway up. Pilot White put the wheels down again and switched to an alternate flight plan. There was no hope now of passing the speed of sound on the first try; supersonic flight is not for airplanes with wheels dangling...
...months, U.S. planemakers, watching the development of the British-French, Mach 2 airliner called Concorde, have worried that the U.S. was falling behind in the field of supersonic flight. Now, with the development of the A11, the U.S., instead, has reached a critical take-off ahead of the rest of the world. In so doing, it may well have revolutionized manned aircraft...
...German Air Force. But the industry is struggling against the odds and searching for promising new projects to revitalize itself. Next week, on just such a search, a group of 14 German aeronautical experts will arrive in the U.S. to study the latest develop ments in vertical take-off aircraft...
...almost overwhelming competition in the present crowded world market. Their best bet, as they see it, is to try somehow to weather their present crisis by getting more licensing work. Meanwhile, hoping to get the jump on others, they plan to concentrate on bringing out the radically new vertical take-off planes that will surely be the true aircraft of the future...