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...went to Buffalo last week to wind up a client's antitrust action. The hearing was shorter than he expected. Lawyer Patterson canceled an afternoon train reservation, boarded the doomed Convair...
...Rochester, its first stop, the sleek two-engined Convair was eight minutes late. At Syracuse the snow was heavier and Pilot Thomas J. Reid landed a half hour behind schedule, late enough for Barbara Levy, Syracuse University sophomore. She had kept a taxi standing by while she finished a mid-term exam, had rushed to the Syracuse field to get a quick start on a winter vacation...
Wide & Thin. Once they began to build experimental delta wings (Convair's XF-92 was the first to fly in 1948), airplane manufacturers discovered other advantages of what the designers call "delta configuration." The strain of high-speed flight tends to bend the airframe out of line. Without adding too much weight., the triangular structure can be built stiff enough to eliminate this danger. A relatively thin wing and its short fuselage-have room for fuel tanks, landing gear and auxiliary equipment...
With rearmament, Douglas Aircraft began fleshing out to something like World War II proportions. It now has a whopping $1 billion backlog- outranked only by Convair and Boeing-for fighters, transports and attack bombers. Douglas is now the only U.S. planebuilder making planes driven by every existing form of aircraft propulsion: piston engines, turboprop, jet and rocket. Employment has climbed to 45,000 and is expected to reach 100,000. Moreover, Douglas has plowed $1,000,000 into a Santa Monica, Calif. plant, where it is now building guided missiles for the Navy (the Sparrow) and the Army (the Nike...
...Rentschler and every other airman knows: "The engine is the key to air supremacy." To help the U.S. gain air supremacy, the armed forces are already rushing plans for production of new fighters and big intercontinental bombers-Boeing's giant B-52 and a sweptback-wing version of Convair's B-36-to use the new jet's fuel economy and power...