Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford coupe. Lieut. Colonel Frank K. Everest Jr., 35, wiggled into his girdle-tight high-altitude suit, picked up his crash helmet and headed for the runway where a four-engined B50 waited. Clamped tight to the B-50's fat belly was "Pete" Everest's aircraft-a sleek, needle-nosed little job with "Bell X2" painted on its sides...
...four major components of the missiles: air frame, propulsion system, nose cone, guidance system. The project is being technically supervised by Los Angeles' young, hustling Ramo-Wooldridge Corp., headed by two top research scientists, Dr. Dean Wooldridge, 43, and Dr. Simon Ramo, 43, who seceded from Hughes Aircraft less than three years ago to found their own electronics corporation (TIME, Oct. 5, 1953). They answer directly to the Air Force's Western Development Division, supervise a long list of industrial giants working out the problems of components for ballistic missiles. Among them...
...FRAMES: Convair and Glenn L. Martin Co. are developing separate intercontinental frames, each with a different shape and rocket arrangement. An intermediate-range frame is being developed by Douglas Aircraft...
Britain's aviation industry last week was taking one of its heaviest shellackings since the Battle of Britain. The walloping came from a wartime R.A.F. squadron leader named William A. Waterton, who later became a Paris-London speed-record holder (1947) and chief test pilot of Gloster Aircraft for seven postwar years. In the past two years, as aviation correspondent for London's Daily Express, Waterton has seldom concealed his conviction that British planemakers have allowed their aircraft to lag farther behind U.S. and Russian planes...
...without this Government assistance, observed the investigators, the military aircraft industry would not be able to fill the nation's needs in time of emergency. The subcommittee noted that planemakers do risk huge losses by summary contract cancellations and failure to win contracts, even though large amounts have been spent on preliminary designs. It commended the industry for plowing back 60% to 70% of net earnings in research and development...