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...Moffett Field, near San Francisco, the Convair XFY-1 last week made its first public test flight, inside a blimp hangar. Nicknamed "the Pogo Stick," the XFY-1 is the Navy's vertical-takeoff fighter. Standing upright on the tips of its delta wings and two big vertical stabilizers, the odd craft was tethered by six cables to control it, if necessary...
...CONVAIR is hurrying work on a prototype supersonic heavy bomber, the B-58, which will look something like Convair's F-102 interceptor, have delta wings and much higher speed than Boeing's eight-jet B-52 intercontinental bomber...
...engine equipped with an afterburner, the engine that pushed the F-100 Super Sabre (TIME, Oct. 26) to an official supersonic speed record (755 m.p.h.) for military planes. The husky 20-ft. package of power is also being installed in Douglas' bat-winged fighter, the F4D Skyray, Convair's delta-winged F-102, Boeing's B-52 bomber, to give them an extra kick...
...Navy indicated this week that the search for a high-speed aircraft able to take off and land vertically (helicopters are relatively slow) may be over. It released photographs of two strange experimental fighter planes, the Lockheed XFV1 and the Convair XFY-1, both of which are designed to take off straight up, without the need for runways of any kind, and to land tail-down in a similar vertical attitude. Both planes were photographed sitting vertically on their tails (which are equipped with small casters) in take-off position. Both are apparently able to raise and lower themselves simply...
GENERAL Dynamics Corp., which last year bought 400,000 shares of Consolidated Vultee stock (17%), wants to merge with the planemaker, if stockholders approve. Under the deal, Convair will exchange one share of stock (2,379,298 shares outstanding) for four-sevenths of a share of General Dynamics, makers of the atomic submarine and jet fighters, but will continue to operate much as before...