Word: bomber
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...North American Aviation, Inc., $647.7 million, including F-100 and F107 fighters, the Navy's A3J twin-jet supersonic bomber, engines for the Atlas, other rocket engines...
...supersonic delta-wing B58 Hustler, loping along at 650 m.p.h. 32,000 ft. over Texas, began a sharp turn to the southeast. Suddenly the four-jet bomber strained, trembled. "The first thing I noticed," said Captain Daniel Holland, the defensive-systems operator, "was that we were pulling Gs. which indicated to me that we were achieving an unusual attitude . . . I called Smitty [Major Richard Smith, 40, the pilot] and said: 'What's the matter? What's going on?' The answer wasn't immediate, so I figured he was fighting the controls. Next thing I knew...
Leaping a Generation. Nagging the Air Force is a vast and worsening aircraft and missile obsolescence problem. Today the heavy-wallop weapons are the B-52 and B-47. Around the corner is a new generation: the B58 bomber, Atlas, Titan. But a few years beyond these, the Air Force sees a radically different weapons system of Minuteman solid-fuel missiles, ready for rapid launching from invulnerable underground nests (TIME, March 10). Under the pressure of the budget ceiling, Air Force brains are asking: Why sink most of our development and procurement funds over the next few years into...
...York, once considered a reviewer's citadel impregnable to siege. Justin Gilbert of the Mirror has been under tacit order since 1956 to pull his punches, a mandate he finds painful to obey. Last August, after a mildly unfavorable Gilbert review of The Hunters, a story of jet bomber crews, 20th Century-Fox Vice President Charles Einfeld fired off a cable to Mirror Publisher Charles McCabe, who was vacationing in Rome. In it he expressed "shocked regret shabby dismissal of our very important ambitious costly above all sincerely patriotic film" -a sentiment which, Einfeld pointedly went...
...number to that of the U.S. Strategic Air Command-consists of about 1,500 jets and turboprops. Most of this force is shortrange, but the U.S.S.R. has developed inflight refueling techniques that provide enough range to make round-trip missions to the U.S. And though their Bison and Badger bombers are inferior to the U.S.'s B-47s and B-52s (and Russian airplane maintenance and crew-training are low grade), the criterion of a good bomber is not how well it stacks up against the other fellow's in design or in direct combat, but whether...