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...Navy have all the answers, even though peninsular warfare is traditionally the Navy's meat. Item: at this critical moment, the Navy had no aircraft to meet the Russian MIG, had to make the humiliating decision to stay out of MIG Alley. (While the Air Force F-86s knocked MIGs out at a rate of 13 to 1.) Obviously, what was needed was a force to fight any kind of war, big, medium-sized or little...
...these things added weight: one extra pound of gadgetry can add ten pounds to the plane because of needed structural changes, extra fuel capacity, etc. They also added to the cost: F-86s cost $500,000 apiece, v. $100,000 for World War II's Mustangs. But with all due credit to the superb pilots, Dutch Kindelberger is convinced that the gadgets have more than paid off in Korea. Says he: "The best jockey in the world can't win on a lousy horse...
...ended the war with $5,600,000 cash in reserves. Hopkins sought bargains to even out the submarine business, grabbed up Canadair in 1947 from the Canadian government for $8,000,000, half its cost. In 1949 he got the Canadian license for North American's F-86s, gave Canadair its biggest growth ever. Last year Hopkins created General Dynamics for his two companies...
...raised it still higher with his biggest piece of news. Within a week or two, the first U.S. F-86 Sabre jets will be landed in Europe to replace F-84 Thunderjets. A Canadian wing stationed in France is already flying Sabre jets. With F-86s, battle-tested in Korea and equipped to deliver tactical A-bombs, U.S. fighter pilots will at last feel able to cope with the Russian MIGs, if they have...
...have left the front-and in many cases the service, the Pentagon must check back into company records to see who is entitled to the money. This paper work alone, the Pentagon estimates, will cost $250,000,000-more than enough to buy a supercarrier or one thousand F-86s...