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...tons, the 134-ft. copter, powered by 1,650-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines fore & aft, can carry 40 troops, 32 litter patients, or three jeeps, has a top speed of more than 146 m.p.h. and a fuselage, almost 78 ft. long, about as big as that of a Convair...
Nimbly, Odium had shifted some burdensome problems on to the broad shoulders of General Dynamics' President John Jay Hopkins, who had courage to take on Convair. Only eight months ago its B60 bomber, on which it had pinned its biggest hopes for multimillion Government orders, had been turned down by the Air Force in favor of Boeing's B-52 (TIME, Aug. 4). But Hopkins was making a calculated gamble on a longer-range future. Convair has the Government contract to develop an aircraft driven by atomic propulsion. Since Hopkins' own company already has the Navy...
Wide Plans. With Convair, Hopkins' immediate prospects are not quite so rosy. The loss of the B60 contract was a grave shock to ex-Boss Odlum. But Convair still has a backlog of more than $1 billion in orders for its military planes and its pressurized Convair 340 transport. Last year it netted $10,400,000, close to its World War II peak ($12,300,000). With Convair in the fold, Hopkins hopes to make General Dynamics both general, dynamic, and radioactive...
...dipped to $7,700,000. But last week Odium told stockholders that Convair was gaining altitude again. In 1952 Convair had earned $10.4 million, its best net profit since World War II and about 35% more than in 1951. It was turning out Convair-340 airliners and finishing off orders for B-36s, which are being replaced by Boeing B-52s. Soon Convair will begin making F-102 delta-wing supersonic interceptors...
...Convair is already in developmental production of the Navy's new delta-wing F2Y Sea-Dart. A supersonic jet fighter with skis for landing on water, it skitters ashore looking like an ungainly swordfish (see cut). Convair expects the new design to combine land-based performance with water-based versatility, create a "revolution" in naval operations. Current backlog: more than $1 billion...