Word: 1s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole air force from the ground up. It's a great job, and I was lucky enough to draw it. When you consider that it was only a few years ago that the entire Vietnamese air force consisted of 20 ancient Bearcats and a couple of A-1s, they've come a remarkably long way in an awful hurry...
...reported doing well after five years and $289 million of development cost, but it has not flown yet; and even more money and time must be lavished on it before a cluster of F-1s can be considered a safe enough booster for the ride to the moon. Thiokol's 156-in. motor, twice as powerful as the Fl, worked the first time. Its development cost was only...
...Pilots Association chose a new president: mild-mannered Charles Homer Ruby, 52. Backed by retiring President Sayen as a way of freezing out his arch-opponent, ALPA First Vice President John Carroll, Ruby is a onetime mechanic who has logged 20,000 flying hours in everything from chugging J-1s to jet-powered DC-8s, ranks No. 2 on National Airlines' seniority list. He inherits a Sayen-created impasse. The convention that elected Ruby also voted to continue the two-year-old strike against Southern Airways that has already cost ALPA some $2 million...