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...President of the U.S. had some electrifying news. With an air of quiet pride, he announced that the U.S. had secretly developed and successfully tested an aircraft that is far in advance of any ever seen before. Called the A11, the sleek, razor-winged interceptor flies higher and faster than any jet aircraft in history, promises a major breakthrough toward the futuristic world of flight at more than three times the speed of sound...
What makes the A11 even more amazing is the fact that in a world of production-line design, it is the brain child of one man: Vice President Clar ence ("Kelly") Johnson, the same Lockheed Aircraft Corp. engineer who designed the famed, high-altitude U-2 ten years ago. Under orders from the Eisenhower Administration in 1959, Kelly Johnson and his team got busy in the "Skunk Works"-a secret hangar area at Lockheed's Burbank, Calif., plant where U-2 plans also took shape. The first A11 took to the air last fall...
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...years loss to more than $1.5 billion, almost all of it in 1960's second half So serious was the situation that Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson got on the phone to Henry Ford II and offered "suggestions about the advisability of Ford's offer to buy a11 the stock of its British subsidiary (TIME, Nov. 28), which presumably would add some $300 million to the U.S. gold outflow. Ford politely said that the company was going ahead...