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...warm sunshine, as a swarm of Russian-built MIGs circled overhead, an American-piloted Convair dropped down on Cairo's airport. Erupting from its interior came six fierce-looking bodyguards, their gold daggers glinting beside shiny machine pistols thrust in their black bandoleers. Twenty-one guns boomed ceremonially as a tall, majestically robed Arab King stepped down from the plane, silver-rimmed spectacles gleaming beneath his flowing, gold-banded headdress. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, an Arab in a business suit, stepped forward, and kissed him on both cheeks...
Saud tries hard to be the Koran's conscientious father to his people. He travels the country (nowadays he flies in a Convair, has an air-conditioned trailer driven overland to meet him at his destination), listens to a sheik's troubles, soothes him with a Cadillac, a school or a clinic-given as a favor rather than as a right. But father comes first. In two years observers estimate Saud has set aside $100 million for new palaces. One just completed in Jiddah (cost: $28 million) brings his personal collection of palaces to 24, and another...
ATLAS ICBM will be test-fired within 18 months. Convair plans to launch its intercontinental missile (range: 5,000 miles) from Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. into Caribbean and Atlantic firing range...
...plane looks like a bigger, burlier version of Convair's supersonic F-102 jet fighter interceptor: like the F-102, it has a needle-nosed, coke-bottle fuselage with sharply swept delta wings and high, shark's-fin tail. The Hustler appears to be about 100 ft. long 60 ft. from wingtip to wingtip, roughly comparable to the current Air Force standby, Boeing's 600-m.p.h. B-47 medium bomber. But where the B-47 has six General Electric J47 (5,800 lbs. of thrust) engines, Convair's new B58 gets its supersonic hustle from only...
...Convair has a $400 million development contract for a small number of planes. But if the Hustler proves as good as it looks, Convair is in line for a whopping big order and a pat on the back. Where most U.S. planemakers just build the air frame, then fit on whatever armament, radar, etc. that the Air Force orders, Convair's B58 is the first U.S. aircraft to be built under the new "weapons-system" concept, where the prime contractor is responsible for everything (except engines). On a plane as complex as the Hustler, the new system can save...