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...command of the U.S. Air Force last week began flying through its biggest peacetime maneuver to show that in wartime its men could perform well-even if its old machines might not. The command: the Military Air Transport Service, whose primary military assignment is to move soldiers and supplies to distant battlefields and trouble spots. Because MATS does not fire missiles or drop bombs, and because its main chore is to move and service ground forces, it has become a sort of stepchild, limps along on a small fraction of the Air Force's $18 billion budget...
...seven to twelve years old, are so short-ranged that they rely on vulnerable island refueling stops on long hops. If Wake Island, Kwajalein and Eniwetok were atomized, MATS would be hard put to deliver as much as a can of Spam to Japan. The only long-legged, modern transport in Tunner's stable is the turboprop C-133 Cargomaster, of which MATS counts a mere 29, with another 20 on order...
When the West was slow with offers of aid, Leftist Touré simply turned to Communist countries. Last week Guinea's warehouses bulged with surplus East German cement, with 200 new Praga and Skoda cars just in from Czechoslovakia, and with the secret cargoes of Russian and Czech transport planes unloaded under guard. Communist money was building a huge new printing plant for Guinea, to be followed by a powerful radio station. Communist Czechs operate Conakry's airport and harbor, and a Communist Pole is Touré's adviser on public works. Even the Red Chinese were...
...transport tragedies, 5,300 miles and 34 hours apart, last week brought 1960's grim record to eight major fatal crashes, 326 dead...
...military version of the four-engined DC-6) and a twin-engined Real Airlines (Brazilian) DC3-collided as both were circling to land. The Brazilian plane knifed through the Navy transport, cutting it in two and spilling bodies and debris out of the clouds into the water. Aboard the U.S. plane, on their way to Rio to play for Presidents Eisenhower and Kubitschek, were 23 members of the famed Navy Band. All were killed. Out of a total of 64 aboard the two planes, there were just three survivors-all U.S. Navymen who were riding in the shorn tail section...