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...tactical strike aircraft in support of ground troops, it can whisk in with rockets, a 20-mm. cannon that fires at the rate of 6,000 rounds per minute and a bomb bay packing a heavier load, either conventional or nuclear, than a World War II B-17 bomber. Since the Thunderchief can carry either an H-bomb or Abomb, it can take a crack at the biggest and most important targets...
...aircraft cutbacks proposed by the Administration would permit the Air Force to build only 40 more Boeing B-52 jet bombers, bringing the B-52 force to a total of 700 by the end of 1963, and only 30 more delta-wing, 1,400-m.p.h. Convair B-58s, for a total of 86. Air Force planners were distressed that only $70 million was earmarked for two prototype models of the 2,000-m.p.h. B70 long-range bomber, which airmen envisage as being able to fly anywhere in the world within five hours and to lay as many as 100 small...
...Amazing courage!" said the postmaster of Caldy later. "The sea was pounding with such force that the spray was flying across the island like a flock of sea gulls." And last week, when the storm was even higher. Father Abbot Samson Wicksteed, 36, a wartime radioman in an R.A.F. bomber, led husky Brother Joseph, ex-Barrister Brother Thomas and wiry Father Anthony (an R.A.F. squadron leader in the Battle of Britain and D.S.O. winner) once again into the gale. This time there was also a bottle of rum in the tea chest...
Even with the mergers, the British aviation industry has a long way to go before it settles down to the two or three major units that Minister Sandys hopes for. Still unspoken for are Fairey Aviation Co., Rotodyne aircraft developer; Handley Page, an R.A.F. jet bomber maker; and such firms as Hunting Aircraft, Short Bros. & Harland, and Westland Aircraft, Britain's leading helicopter maker. But with a dwindling market for military aircraft (less than 50% of industry sales last year v. 65% in 1956) plus U.S. dominance in long-range jetliners, amalgamation appears to be an economic must...
...Force's college reserve officers' training program as outmoded as the B-17 bomber? Fortnight ago, John D. Millett, president of Miami University of Ohio, posed the question on behalf of 176 college and university administrators gathered for an Air Force-sponsored conference on R.O.T.C. problems at Maxwell A.F.B., Ala. Continued changes in policy have caused growing tension and occasional open hostility between the colleges and the junior service. Even former Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas admitted to the educators that the A.F.R.O.T.C. program "suggests a considerable amount of lost motion," since only 4,000 officers...