Word: aircraft
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Died. Reuben H. Fleet, 88, aviation pioneer who in 1918 ran the Army's first airmail service between New York and Washington, and in 1923 founded the forerunner of Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp., which built B-24 bombers used during World War II; of injuries from a fall; in San Diego...
...usual, the believers lambasted the Air Force and other authorities for suppressing UFO reports. Astronomer J. Allen Hynek of Northwestern University, the ranking UFO investigator and author of the recent book, The UFO Experience, accused the Air Force of "pigeonholing every UFO sighting as either conventional aircraft, balloons or natural phenomena in order to produce statistics showing a low number of unexplained cases...
...years, and the defense department proudly announced last February that "South Africa is now independent of the rest of the world as far as needs for internal security go." South Africa now produces air-to-air and ground-to-air missile systems locally, and it makes artillery, infantry, anti-aircraft and tank munitions with nearly 100 per cent local materials--all for "internal security...
...political reasons. The social changes in the Middle East are basically toward urbanization. The population centers are growing. People's expectations are forcing Arab governments to shift their orientation from war to the pressing issues of domestic improvement. Economically, the price of arms is becoming prohibitive. A military aircraft that cost $1 million ten years ago costs $20 million today. Even if you produce oil, there is a limit to what you can spend for weapons. Militarily, the destructive power of modern weapons is so great that even the winner will have to pay so heavily...
...felt slighted. He found it degrading to work under Air Minister Kingsley Wood, whom he described as "a bally crook" and a "little swine." In May 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed him Minister of Transport, but Reith's satisfaction was undermined by bitterness that the more important Aircraft Production Ministry was given to Lord Beaverbrook. "To no one is the vulgar designation shit more appropriately applied" is the way Reith tidily sums up Beaverbrook...