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...quit building manned bombers. In Fort Worth, Texas, the Air Force recently took delivery of the last of 100 Convair B58 Hustler supersonic bombers it had ordered. Two days before, the last of 744 B-52H strategic bombers was turned over to the U.S.A.F. in Wichita, Kans., by Boeing. North American's 2,000-m.p.h. Valkyrie, once designated the B-70, is still under development, but its classification has been changed from bomber to ''reconnaissance-strike" plane...
...Kennedy family plane, a twin-engined Convair 240, is up for sale at $375,000. The President used the plane during his 1960 campaign but no longer needs it, since he has a special 707 jet and numerous helicopters at his disposal...
Died. Françoise de Moriere, 29, a French girl working as a stewardess for Allegheny Airlines; in a rare and eerie aircraft mishap; near Hartford, Conn. As Allegheny's short-hop Convair approached Hartford's Bradley Field, a loose cabin door in the rear of the plane suddenly blew open; rapid decompression popped her through the opening and to her death on an open field 1,500 ft. below. "She was gone in a flash," said a passenger. "Not a cry-not a word...
...have lived in San Diego all our lives, and we want to tell you that we are glad someone has finally noticed the bad economic situation in San Diego. My husband has been out of work for three months. He worked for Convair for more than eleven years and was laid off along with thousands of others. He knows no other trade. He has looked everywhere. Soon he will be forced to look for work out of town or state. We do not want to leave San Diego; we have our home, and our children are enrolled in school...
...last week, the great changeover in U.S. defense plans from aircraft to missiles had boosted San Diego's unemployment to 8.8%. Worse yet, this figure is likely to grow higher, for the single major missile produced in San Diego is Convair's liquid-fueled Atlas, a weapon that the Air Force is gradually phasing out in favor of the solid-fueled Minuteman (major contractor: Boeing, in Seattle...