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...delta-winged Convair interceptor loaded with Hughes Aircraft electronic equipment, was planned as the mainstay of U.S. air defense from 1957 until 1960. Outperformed in most categories by the Voodoo and found full of bugs, it was redesigned and is at last in production, but the F-102 program will not be accelerated...
...Rogers gestured for silence and whispered: "Listen! I hear those seagulls now." Once Carter emerged from an all-afternoon session with President Franklin Roosevelt and announced triumphantly: "I got my five feet." Carter had talked F.D.R. into adding five feet on to the Government's proposed mile-long Convair plant, because Tulsa was about to get an aircraft plant a mile long and Carter wanted Fort Worth's to be bigger...
VICKERS VISCOUNT, Britain's most successful postwar transport, will soon replace U.S. Convair 240s on short-haul routes on Holland's KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Vickers has sold nine Viscounts worth $11 million to KLM, landed orders for five planes from three U.S. corporations (U.S. Steel, Standard Oil Co. of California, Hughes Tool Co.), thus breaking into the lucrative business-flying field for the first time. Total Viscounts sold to date...
Specifications for the new turboprop had been laid down by American Airlines. American wanted the plane for medium-range routes to replace its 75-plane fleet of relatively slow (270 m.p.h.), twin-engined Convairs, had been shopping ever since Capital Airlines decided to import Vickers' 320-m.p.h. Viscounts last year. Convair, Douglas, Vickers and Lockheed all put in bids and, when Lockheed won, it was the first time that Lockheed had ever beaten Douglas for an important American Airlines contract...
FIRST U.S. TURBOPROP plane for commercial use will soon be ordered by American Airlines to replace its piston-engined Convair 240s. Both Douglas and Lockheed are scrambling for an order from American for four-engined, 60-passenger transports with a 415-m.p.h. cruising speed and 2,500-mile cruising range...