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Academy. Air Forcemen are deeply worried about the Kennedy Administration defense policy; they fear, with considerable cause, that Defense Secretary McNamara is phasing out the manned bomber. But Kennedy told the cadets that more than ever before, their futures will be "changing and challenging." Then he announced an Administration decision to spend federal millions to develop a supersonic commercial-transport aircraft (see U.S. BUSINESS...
With that background, Cooper could not resist the temptation to trade his college R.O.T.C. commission for an Air Force lieutenant's bar in 1949. He flew F-84s and F-86s with a fighter-bomber group in Munich for four years, earned an aeronautical engineering degree at Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, qualified for the rugged test-pilot duty at the pioneering Edwards Air Force Base in California-home of the world's highest, fastest jet, the X-15. A few years before his selection as an astronaut, Cooper took a friendly flight with another...
...Force. Air Commandos, proud of their Anzac-style hats, live in a strange world of seemingly obsolete aircraft: the B-26 bomber, T-28 trainer, slow C46 and C-47 cargo-troop planes. Instead of supersonic jets, they have the U-10 monoplane, which can slow to 30 m.p.h. without stalling, is ideal for dropping leaflets or broadcasting by loudspeaker to villagers. Says one Commando officer: "A loudspeaker is a lot cheaper than...
...that had what one columnist called "staggering diversity," ex-prizefighter chatted with industrialist, baseball manager interpreted ideas expressed by theologian, and one U.S. Senator demanded that another yield a beautiful actress. Items: . . . Before dinner Monday night, Joe Louis and Henry Ford II held an animated conversation about the Brown Bomber's days as a 55?-an-hour assembly-line worker in the Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge plant back in 1933. "I told Mr. Ford," said Louis, "that I went on a leave of absence and haven't been back since." "We talked about...
...supersonic project. In its usual guarded fashion, Boeing has been testing models in wind tunnels for at least five years, has built a full-scale mock-up of a cabin section of a Mach 3 jetliner. North American Aviation is building three prototypes of the supersonic B70 bomber. Pooled Skills. But none of the U.S. airframe makers can on its own raise the $1 billion to $2 billion needed to develop an SST. To get a program moving this year, President Kennedy must get $100 million or so out of Congress during the current session, or face a delay that...