Word: 36s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Odium told stockholders that Convair was gaining altitude again. In 1952 Convair had earned $10.4 million, its best net profit since World War II and about 35% more than in 1951. It was turning out Convair-340 airliners and finishing off orders for B-36s, which are being replaced by Boeing B-52s. Soon Convair will begin making F-102 delta-wing supersonic interceptors...
...been trying to decide on an intercontinental jet bomber to replace the B-36, last week picked one. The plane: Boeing's eight-engined B-52. The Air Force awarded Boeing a letter contract to build some 70 of the planes, and announced that no more B-36s will be built after the ones now being built are finished. It was a double blow for Convair, which had hoped that its B60 would be picked as the long-range bomber. But the B-52 is considerably faster than the B-60. Powered by eight Pratt & Whitney J57 jet engines...
...Audubon Cain, the bird watcher." When he finally spotted the YB-60 in flight he could only swear; it was too late to make his last edition, and the morning Star-Telegram, also owned by Carter, would get the break on the story. Then, in a flight of B-36s hovering high overhead, Cain saw something odd. One of the B-36s let something drop. It shot away so fast that it was obviously either a rocket or jet fighter...
When a blab-mouthed Congressman leaked this news to the press, the Air Force let out an anguished cry. For months it has been shifting the big planes from base to base, doing all it could to make its handful of B-36s look like a mighty fleet. Even some Congressmen were shocked by the leak. Said Senator Dick Russell, who presided over the MacArthur hearing and did his level best to protect official secrets: "It is difficult to conceive of such utter lack of responsibility . . . [This] might well be the cause of World...
...Chukotsk bases (where the Soviets have been building up fuel supplies), bound for such atom-worthy targets as the Hanford plutonium plant in eastern Washington, or the West Coast aircraft plants-or possibly industrial targets in the upper Midwest. Offensively, Alaska was a strategic refueling point for transpolar B-36s...