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...pilots "lost the feel" of the ship because of the new power control system; to supply "artificial feel," a spring and a bob-weight were built in so that the pressures on the stick would vary with changes in speed and altitude. The nose of one model, the F-86D interceptor, was loaded with special radar equipment which will track down an enemy plane, figure its speed and angle of approach, automatically steer the F-86D on an intercepting course and fire its load (24 "Mighty Mouse" rockets) before diverting the F-86 so it won't collide with...
...Force think the money well spent. If the F-102 lives up to hopes, the Air Force will eventually make it the No. 1 plane for defense of the continental U.S., use it to replace such current fighters as the FSg Scorpion, the F94 and the F-86D Sabre...
...step toward this goal is the "semiautomatic interceptor" such as the Lockheed Starfire (F-94C) and the North American F-86D, which airmen call the "Dog." Both are in limited production (the Starfire was announced this week), but neither is in tactical operation...
...American, whose F-86 Sabre jet fighter set a world speed record of 671 m.p.h. in 1948, knew that its improved versions, the F-86B and F-86C, were in Dutch's own words "obsolete before they got off the drawing board." It is now producing the F-86D and F-86E, and in Engineer Kindelberger's view, they are obsolete too. When the Navy wanted a long-range bomber big enough to carry the Abomb, it turned to Kindelberger. The result was the AJ-1, with one turbojet and two reciprocating engines...