Word: 5s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pride of many a small-budget nation's air force is a snoop-nosed, 1,000-m.p.h. whizbang called the F-5 Freedom Fighter. A flight of Philippine F-5s snapped into escort positions around Air Force One when President Johnson took off on the Manila-to-Bangkok leg of his Southeast Asian trip. Belgium and The Netherlands are about to order the planes. This month Morocco's King Hassan, anxious to retire his aging Russian-built MIG-17s, will take delivery of a dozen F-5s...
Survive & Win. Built by Beverly Hills-based Northrop Corp., the plane is that rarest of all U.S. birds: the military jet that succeeds without a fat Pentagon order. So far, some 300 F-5s have been purchased by 15 countries, ranging around the globe from Ethiopia to Canada to South Korea. On the books, Northrop has orders for 800 more, worth a total of $600 million...
Spain recently agreed to buy 70 F-5 jet fighters from Northrop Corp. for $47 million; the planes were originally developed for distribution to U.S. allies under military-assistance pacts. Canada, on the verge of ordering 200 F-5s, is debating whether to switch to the costlier McDonnell F4, whose interceptor model is the hottest in the U.S. inventory, or to the Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, which can land on a carrier. Australia has decided to buy ten Lockheed P-3 Orion antisubmarine planes. West Germany, whose purchases account for nearly half of U.S. foreign arms sales...
...high. An umbilical tower will stand at one end, the rocket at the other end. When assembly is complete, the entire mechanism will creep to the launching sites at one mile per hour along wide, heavy-duty roads. The assembly building, crawlers, roads and launch sites for the C-5s will cost $400 million, which alone is nearly four times the yearly cost of maintaining all national parks...
Preferred LOR. No C-5s are scheduled to fly before 1965, but assembly and launch facilities must be started well ahead. Much of Holmes's attention goes into such planning, but not long ago he had to make a more crucial decision: he had to select the "mode" in which the first men will fly to the moon...