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Range and change have brought the Air Force a whole set of new problems, e.g., the low (11%) re-enlistment rate of desperately needed technicians (some of the F-100s, without enough trained men to maintain them, have been grounded ). But the new Air Force, in all its flux, is nonetheless sustained by a stable strength. In its short ten years of existence as a separate branch of the armed services, it has acquired tradition, theory, individuality, discipline and a high sense of mission-all while being constantly at work to meet the threat that the U.S. has never known...
...basic piston-engine flight in Beech's Mentor (T-34. In the T-37, instructor and student sit side by side instead of tandem. With 150 hours in the T-37, the student can step up to Lockheed's T-33, quickly graduate to supersonic F-100s. By 1960 the Air Force expects to have about...
...fast that human reactions are woefully slow. At Edwards Air Force Base in California, all structural parts are first checked out on a Mach 3 (2,280 m.p.h.) rocket sled to make sure that they will stand up under supersonic stresses. When North American's first F-100s developed tail flutter at speeds above Mach 1, engineers grounded all planes, experimented with a tail attached to a rocket sled. They drove the sled until the tail disintegrated, found where it needed improvement. In the old days, it would have taken many test flights-and perhaps some pilots' lives...
...Night of the Hunter has gone many pages, Ben Harper lives out the doggerel and swings for his crimes. The secret and, eventually, the terror around which Author Grubb's skin-prickling first novel unfolds is: What did Ben Harper do with the $10,000 in crisp, green 100s that he killed two bank clerks...
...After that, White took to strolling the streets, inconspicuous in a wrinkled grey suit. From time to time, beside a convent wall or in a park, he met seedy individuals and received small packages in return for bills he peeled from a fat wad of U.S. $100s. At length, the seedy ones led him to houses where he paid big money ($5,000, all told) for big packages. Then, having learned the names and residences of Ecuador's busiest dope dealers, George White led the Quito cops in 48 hours of raids...