Word: bomarcs
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...planes. Beall's designers are working on a supersonic intercontinental bomber, have another Air Force contract for an engineering study for nuclear-powered aircraft. In Boeing's top-secret electronics laboratory, others are busy with a $200 million development and production contract for Boeing's F99 "Bomarc," a pilotless interceptor plane to send after bombers. It is in the secret missiles that Boeing sees the aircraft of the future. Bill Allen and Wellwood Beall are convinced that the airplane and the missile are growing ever closer, will eventually become one and the same. When that day comes...