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...last of the 15 first stages for the Saturn 5, NASA's journeyman booster for manned flight, will roll off assembly lines a year from June. By 1972 at the latest, all of them will be used up. Although NASA has been given funds for three additional Saturn 5s, the money will be just enough to ward off protracted delays in manufacture. Says Apollo Spacecraft Program Manager George Low: "This summer is our last chance to establish a new goal with continuity...
...Lockheed's Marietta, Ga., plant back in March, President Johnson noted that 88 ordinary cargo planes would be necessary to move an infantry brigade from Hawaii to Viet Nam-and the brigade's heaviest equipment would have to go by ship. By contrast, just 20 C-5s could handle the whole operation. The plane, said the President, ushers in a "new era in America's power...
...Force took twelve F-5s to Viet Nam last year for a four-month combat test called Operation Skoshi...
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...
...Japanese for little) Tiger. The planes lived up to the name. Easily maintained, the F-5s could fly two missions a day, compared with one for the bigger jets. Enemy gunners managed to hit them on an average of only once in every 250 combat flights, as against one time in 90 for other planes...