Word: aero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over Cuba's revolt-riddled Oriente province one night last week, an Aero Commander two-engine plane outran a pursuing government DC-3. Then, its gas gone, the plane tried to glide into the nearby U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo and nosed into the nearby bay. Watchers at the base's radar screen saw it vanish-another mystery of the cloak-and-dagger Cuban civil...
...whatever his motives or apparent fitness, no man is likely to take off from the U.S. for outer space until Colonel Stapp, now head of Wright's Aero Medical Lab, is sure that he has a good chance to get back intact. Stapp plans to test the Air Force and Navy on finding and recovering a capsule dropped in the ocean, as it might drop a returning spaceman. Then he will try again, with a capsule fired downward at 3,000 to 4,000 m.p.h. from a high-flying missile. Next he will try to recover an orbiting satellite...
...Aero Alti-Cruiser, a pressurized, souped-up version of the Aero Commander. Cruising speed: 230 m.p.h. Price...
Push from the Bottom. The Big Three's progress and profit is not lost on the dozens of smaller planemakers, who are also learning to grow by selling utility. In barely six years, Oklahoma's Aero Design & Engineering Co. has leaped to a $12 million annual business with its high-priced ($89,500) twin-engined Aero Commander. When the Air Force bought 15, including one for President Eisenhower, so many companies jumped in with orders that Aero expects to sell about 120 planes this year, has built a $6,250,000 plant to boost production. Prospects...
...space. That man is wiry, redheaded Air Force Captain Joe W. Kittinger, 28, whose balloon of bubble-thin plastic last week rose to a record-breaking 96,000 ft. (TIME, June 10). His flight was planned by Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp, head of the Air Force's Aero Medical Laboratory, as an approach to the bristling problem of staying alive in space...