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...Aeronautics Administration was hard pressed to keep abreast of all SAC and civilian air traffic." Despite such difficulties, tough, exacting General Curtis LeMay's SAC put on a near-perfect display of massive, smooth-functioning air power: every plane took off on schedule, every aerial refueling (the B-47s used some 16 million gallons of fuel during the exercise) was successfully carried out at the proper time in the proper place. The only casualties: three crew members of a B-47 that crashed in western Ontario...
...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...
...wingtip, roughly comparable to the current Air Force standby, Boeing's 600-m.p.h. B-47 medium bomber. But where the B-47 has six General Electric J47 (5,800 lbs. of thrust) engines, Convair's new B58 gets its supersonic hustle from only four General Electric J-47s, with an estimated thrust of more than 12,000 Ibs. each. Estimated speed of the Hustler: between 1,000 m.p.h. and 1,400 m.p.h...
...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...
...Range. On a recent, typical duty day a wing of B-47s left Ohio for duty in North Africa; at almost the same moment a squadron of F-84s started from Virginia for Okinawa. Each flight stirred up a wasp's nest of Air Defense Command interceptors (practicing supersonic passes at the outbound planes in carefully planned defense exercises), air refueling tankers far-flung in Atlantic and Pacific bases, air traffic controllers, air detection and warning networks, air-sea rescue squadrons, and MATS units hauling spare parts, supplies and technicians...