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...help, to go ahead with their atomic striking force. De Gaulle has conducted four atomic test explosions in the Sahara wastes, is close to building a modest bomb small enough to be delivered by an airplane. At the big Dassault factories, work is under way on the Mirage IV bomber, a two-seat jet that can reach Mach 2.4 (1,590 m.p.h.) over a 2,000-mile range. Fifty of these, combined with the smaller, slower Mirage III, will make a considerable new foe for the Communists along about 1965. The first French-made A-bombs may well be installed...
Even for the sophisticated rocket watchers of Cape Canaveral to whom the swiftest jet plane seems a little oldfashioned, the contrails of the B-52 bomber that soared high overhead last week held a special significance. Telescopes and electronic eyes on the Atlantic Missile Range traced every mile of the big ship's progress. The reason for the intense interest was obvious. Under the bomber's right wing hung a slim Skybolt missile, the newest and most promising weapon of the U.S. Air Force...
Guiding Stars. Instruments both on the bomber and the missiles will watch the stars before launch (even in daylight) and jointly keep track of the plane's position above the surface of the earth. When a target has been selected, the bomber's crew will crank the proper instructions into the computers carried by the four Skybolts. At the press of a button, the birds will be on the wing, heading in salvo for a single target or spreading out on individual courses to clobber widely separated cities...
...explain the missile's lack of early publicity by pointing out that when it was soaring through its research testing, Pentagon strategists were busy moving heaven and Congress to promote the $10 billion B70 project. Long before the first B70 flies, Skybolt will be competitive with the supersonic bomber...
Died. Sir Frederick Handley Page. 76, pioneer builder of bombers, founder and chairman of Britain's first-and its last un-nationalized-aircraft corporation, Handley Page Ltd.. who designed multiengined R.A.F. warplanes from World War I's wood-and-linen type 0/400 to today's 600-m.p.h. Victor jet bomber, in peacetime invented the slotted wing, which blunderproofs planes against low-speed stalls; in London...