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...spreading among the treetops], it won't stop till it gets to Custer, and we'll all look like Custer's men after the battle." At midmorning next day, the men were still fighting. Two Forest Service planes-a converted 6-24 and a Navy torpedo bomber-began bombing hot spots with 500-gal. loads of a slurry made of bentonite and water. Slowly the fire fighters won control, and by midafternoon Deadwood's residents were told to come back home...
...other fields. Hawker Siddeley builds cars (the Sapphire). Others make boats, harvesters, computers, plastic products. Those that hope to develop advanced planes are working together. De Havilland, Fairey and Hunting are jointly developing a new medium-range jet, the D.H. 121. English Electric and Vickers are developing a supersonic bomber...
...American's F-100 Super Sabre, McDonnell's F101 Voodoo, Convair's F-102, Lockheed's 1,400-m.p.h. F-104 Starfighter or Convair's F-106. Only one tactical plane is funded in the new budget: Republic's supersonic F-105 fighter-bomber...
...city-block, $45 million plant near Niagara Falls, which was scheduled to deliver its first batch of exotic fuel this month. It also canceled a contract with the General Electric Co. for producing the J-93-5 engine to power North American Aviation's "chemical" B70 bomber with a combination of exotic and conventional fuels. Next day the Navy announced that it was dropping all work in exotic fuels, including the $35 million Gallery Chemical Co. plant at Muskogee, Okla., which was 99% finished. Both plants belong to the Government, will have to be mothballed unless they...
...million of its $100 million contract with the Air Force. The J-93-3 is conventionally fueled, is scheduled to go into both North American's B70 and its F108 fighter. Officials insist that the boron cutback itself does not mean a cutback in the B70 bomber program, but only an alteration in the bomber to make it wholly conventionally fueled, and that the cutback has no relation to the F-108, which was programed to use conventional fuels all along. But many aircraft men feel that both programs, which barely got into the Administration's budget request...