Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...directly to Reagan, was: "Your definition of national strength is to throw money at the Defense Department. My definition ... is to make certain that a dollar spent buys a dollar's worth of defense." While repeating his oppositon to the MX missile ("a sitting duck") and the B-l bomber (flying it, he said, would be "a suicide mission"), Mondale rattled off a long list of weapons systems he did favor. Money saved on the MX and Bl, he contended, could be spent for other military purposes, like strengthening conventional forces in Europe. Said Mondale: "I accept your commitment...
...cost overruns on the C-5A transport plane in 1969, had been warned he risked arrest if he revealed the names of the contractors in his report. The names were duly omitted, but leaked out later. Among the findings: at Rockwell International, actual labor costs on the B-l bomber were $15 an hour, but the final charge to the Government was nearly $200. Boeing's cruise missile markup was from $14 to nearly $114 an hour...
...Benefield, 55, chief test pilot for Rockwell International Corp., which builds the bomber, died of severe head wounds...
...crash: human error. As the plane's movable wings were swung forward for a low-altitude test, Benefield apparently forgot to switch on a mechanism that shifts fuel among various tanks. The B-lA's center of gravity thus stayed toward the tail, causing the bomber to rear up at a 70° angle, stall and tumble earthward...
About halfway through the review, the roar of jets signaled an air force flypast, which was virtually invisible to ground observers because of Peking's chronic smog. The New China News Agency reported that 96 aircraft had taken part. They included H-6 bombers, Chinese versions of the Soviet TU-16 Badger; A6s, radically redesigned ground-support planes similar to the MiG-19; and F-7s, a Chinese adaptation of the MiG-21. The foreign observers had not missed much. Although China has the second-largest number of combat aircraft in the world (after the Soviet Union), most...