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...orders 25 of the planes will be a new type, the Convair 600, designed specifically by General Dynamics' Convair Division to meet Smith's demanding requirements. The 600 is expected to be the fastest jet (cruising speed: 635 m.p.h.) on the commercial airways when it gets into the air in 1961. The other 25 planes just ordered will be smaller, lighter versions of Boeing's transcontinental 707. They will cruise at 601 m.p.h., have a range of 1,850 miles, go into service in 1960. Previously ordered by American: 25 long-haul Boeing 707s, 35 short...
...wrapping up a $28 million deal for six de Havilland Comet 4 pure jets to start 13-hour service between Buenos Aires and New York (almost a year before Panagra gets DC-8 jets on the same run). Varig has ordered French Caravelle jets; Real has bought four Convair jet 880s, will fly a route to Tokyo...
...CONVAIR ORDER for 47 supersonic B58 Hustler bombers, costing upwards of $470 million, is on the way. Hustler program to date: 77 planes...
Wrapped up in Cape Canaveral's future is an organization as complex as a missile itself. It is an industrial cooperative of 15,000 acres, operated for the Air Force by Pan American World Airways and RCA. The facilities are shared by a score of missile contractors (e.g., Convair, Lockheed, General Electric), who use the testing equipment and range for development of their projects for the Army, Navy and Air Force. The man who makes it run is Air Force Major General Donald Yates (West Point '31). Headquartered at Patrick Air Force Base, 18 miles south...
...John V. Naish, 50, executive vice president of General Dynamics' Convair Division, moved up to president, succeeding General Joseph T. McNarney. 64, who is retiring (TIME, Jan. 20). Naish, brother of Cinemactor J. Carrol Naish, graduated from Fordham in '29, learned the industry from the bottom (he started as a mechanic) before he joined Convair in 1947, became executive vice president in 1952. ¶Walter A. Haas Jr., 42, vice president of San Francisco's famed Levi Strauss & Co., stepped up to president, succeeding his uncle (by marriage), Daniel E. Koshland, 65. Haas represents the fourth generation...