Word: 39s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both bigger and faster than Russia's AN-22, until now the largest aircraft in operation. With a maximum payload of 265,000 Ibs. and a range, when fully loaded, of 2,875 miles, the Lockheed plane is powered by four General Electric fanjet TF-39s, the world's most powerful aircraft engines...
While John flew P-39s in the Mediterranean and P-40s in South China, the Marines sent Clint Jr. through Duke University, where he graduated top man in his engineering class. The war over, John went back to Yale for some serious studying, then headed out to Santa Fe where Clint Sr. had lined him up a $175-3-month job in a bank. Meanwhile Clint Jr. was getting a master's in math at M.I.T. In 1950 they joined forces in Dallas...