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...trouble dates back to 1958, when former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, hoping to win a bigger voice for West Germany in NATO, picked the free world's hottest plane. In order to stretch the F-104's capabilities into those of a bomber, the Germans installed so much additional electronic gear that pilots called the plane "a flying physics laboratory...
...celebration for its leading corporate citizen. Among those present was Pan Am's Chairman Juan Trippe, 67, and it was he who perhaps put the Boeing Co. into its best historical perspective. Trippe recalled that as early as 1934 Boeing had drawn up plans for a four-engined bomber; the U.S. War Department turned it down as being too visionary. Boeing thereupon spent $275,000 of its own money to build the plane. During World War II, it became the famed B-17 Flying Fortress-the plane to which, said Trippe, "this republic owes more, perhaps, than any other...
...have terrific morale," says one U.S. fighter-bomber pilot, "and half of it is knowing that these guys will come and get us out. They will try and try and try." To a remarkable extent, they succeed...
...fighter-bombers last week continued to hammer at Hanoi's roads, bridges and fuel depots. As in the week before, Hanoi responded with the most sophisticated weaponry in its defensive armory-and again found it useless. Twenty SAM ground-to-air missiles were fired. All missed. Supersonic MIG-21 fighters rose to tangle with U.S. Air Force F-4C Phantoms flying bomber escort north of Hanoi. North Viet Nam is thought to have only 15 of the advanced Russian jets, and the encounter cost them two of those, knocked down by the Phantoms' Sidewinder missiles-the second...
Some 45,000 ft. above the Southern California desert last week, a B-52 bomber cut loose the strange cargo tucked under its wing. Freed from the mother ship, a gleaming but cumbersome aluminum shape that looked like a huge inverted flatiron dived toward what seemed to be sure destruction on the earth below...