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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...
...Canada's ace Captain Roy Brown, in a Sopwith Camel fighter was credited with the kill; when the Germans came back in 1940's blitz, Sopwith's Hurricanes bagged the lion's share of the bombers. And when the Germans opened up with their V-1s, Sopwith Meteors (Britain's first jets) went up to catch and shoot them down...
...will meet in its rooms at 4 p.m. this afternoon to consider action on a petition calling for a recount of the ballots in the recent presidential election, retiring president Maryslice McArdle announced last night. The election involved saw Nancy Barrow '53 capture the student government leadership by an 1S vote margin over Dele Gilmore...