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Perhaps the most important fact of the exercise was that Operation Powerhouse, immense as it was, represented only a part of SAC's striking power. Excluded from the operation were SAC's B-52s, B-36s, F-84Fs (fighters with a nuclear strike capability) and a large number of B-47s. These were held in readiness against the event of actual war-for which SAC has stood on round-the-clock guard for the last eight years...
Last week's crash was not expected to slow the buildup of the nation's B-52 fleet to 600-900 planes by 1958. Nor did the grounding seriously weaken U.S. defenses. Still in the air were the Air Force's venerable B-36s and shorter-ranged but strategically based B-47s. B-52 crews, moreover, continued to report for around-the-clock duty, and on the flight lines their ships stood combat-ready, their engines tested, their fuel tanks full. "In any need or emergency," said the Air Force, "the B-52s will...
...thinking places principal responsibilities for today's peace on the Air Force, both with its long-range B-52s and B-36s at home, and its B-47s deployed overseas. The Navy and its carriers, mobile bases already cruising within Navy bomber reach of enemy targets (TIME, May 21), play an important auxiliary role. For the Army, there is clearly less and less to do even today. Faced by these staggering facts, the Army struck out for its own place under the nuclear sun of tomorrow, planning and arguing strenuously in these areas...
James Stewart, as the picture begins, is a $70,000 third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. He is called back into the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel and assigned to SAC. He hates it at first, but he takes his lumps in the B-36s (including a crash in Greenland at 40° below), goes on to get his kicks from the world's fastest (more than 600 m.p.h.) operational jet bombers, the B-47s. By the time his tour is up, he is ready to sign on with the Air Force as a professional...
...pure jet by sweeping back the wings, slinging eight jet engines underneath. But in competition, Convair's XB-60 lost out to Boeing's all-new, 600-m.p.h. B-52. With Boeing's B-52 jet bombers now in production (TIME, July 19), the old B-36s have seen their day, will gradually be retired to a secondary role by S.A.C. Now Convair is busily at work on its own all-jet bomber, the XB-58 Hustler. The secret new plane will be a heavy, multi-engined jet with delta wings and a bomb bay big enough...