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...dream of airplane designers is a VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) that will leap into the air like a helicopter, fly as fast as a jet interceptor, and land vertically. Helicopters cannot be upgraded to do this job: they are inherently too slow. The Navy's "Pogo" (Convair XFY-I) takes off and lands vertically, but it has propellers and therefore can never fly as fast as a jet. Many other types have been tried (movable wings, swiveled engines, folding rotors), but none of them show promise of matching the designers' dream...
JUNIOR JETLINERS will touch off a hot new sales race among planemakers. After Convair's announcement of its 600 m.p.h. Skylark (TIME, March 12), both Boeing (with a scaled-down 707) and Douglas (with a DC-9) are planning to build jetliners to carry 50 to 90 passengers on hops as short as 300 miles. Estimated price: around $3,000,000 per plane, or some $1,500,000 cheaper than the long-range jets already on order...
Awarded by the Air Force to Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. were competitive contracts for the development of air frames capable of carrying atomic engines. Lockheed will conduct its program at a giant new installation in Georgia; Convair will continue work at its Fort Worth plant, where it began such research in 1951. The winner of the competition will presumably get a production contract...
...JETLINER will be designed by Convair as competition for Lockheed's turboprop Electra. A four-jet, 580-m.p.h. aircraft powered by General Electric J-79 engines, Convair's pure jet will be smaller than the 125-passenger Douglas DC-8 and Boeing 707, will aim at medium-range (up to 2,000 miles) routes. Projected delivery date: sometime...
Pereira and Luckman landed their first big overall master-planning job in 1951: a huge guided-missile test center at Florida's Patrick Air Force Base. After they had planned a $35 million jet base at Palmdale, Calif, for Lockheed, North American, Northrop and Convair, Northrop awarded the partners a contract to design its new $10 million engineering center. Pereira and Luckman's biggest master-planning job to date: overall supervision of U.S. Air Force and naval base construction in Spain (cost: $300 million...