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...million research and testing plant, has already started to work in part of it to develop new jet engines. And in the missile-laden Cape Canaveral area (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the roster of industrial newcomers reads like the Who's Who of American Industry: Boeing, Chrysler, Convair, Douglas, Fairchild, North American, Northrup, Westinghouse...
...HUSTLER BOMBER has performed so well in test flights that Air Force will speed up production of the four-jet plane that may replace Boeing's B-52. Air Force has 13 delta-wing, supersonic Hustlers on order from Convair, is about to sign contract for another 17, has approved plan to buy still more planes. Hustler's steep price (more than $10 million) will come down to $5,000,000 when full production starts...
...JETLINER will be built by Boeing Airplane Co. to compete with Convair 880 and French Caravelle in short-to-medium-range market. New Boeing 717 is designed to carry 88 to 130 passengers economically at ranges from 200 to 1,700 miles, will have same 600 m.p.h. cruising speed as bigger transcontinental 707 series. Price: about $3,500,000 v. $5,500,000 for 707. Projected delivery date...
...hood. But even when it was standing still, it seemed to be moving, and when its engines opened wide, it snapped forward like a toy on a rubber cord and leaped into the air at a sharp angle. The plane was the new B58 Hustler, a bomber made by Convair...
...there is sufficient warning, they gather at patio parties to watch the gushing clouds of steam tinged with pink, the towers ablaze with brilliant greenish-white light, the plumes of clean-burning jet flame. And in the Starlite Motel, which rents 70 of its 87 units to missilemen from Convair, North American Aviation, Bell Telephone Laboratories, A.C. Spark Plug, the practiced observer at after-the-shoot cocktail parties can tell from the demeanor of his hosts how the shoot has gone. Smiles among the Convair group might mean a promising static-test day for the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, frowns...