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...Government experts has for twelve weeks carefully studied competing proposals for a U.S. supersonic airliner. The nation's ten long-range airlines also pored over the three tons of material submitted by three planemakers (Lockheed, North American and Boeing) and three enginemakers (G.E., United Aircraft and Curtiss-Wright), and made their own recommendations to the Government experts. Taking all this into account, the Federal Aviation Agency team last week made its report to Administrator Najeeb Halaby, who this week is scheduled to present to President Johnson future plans for the nation's supersonic program...
...engines that will power the SST, the choice was considerably less clear. The FAA experts favor the G.E. power plant, but most of the airlines like the United Aircraft engine best; both are fairly conventional jet engines with extremely high thrust. Some lines, notably National, opted for the Curtiss-Wright design, which is the most advanced of the three; it features a porous turbine blade that will be cooled by the passage of air through...
...proposals-along with the power-plant proposals submitted by General Electric, United Aircraft and Curtiss-Wright-will be evaluated by a team of 210 Government aeronautical experts, will also be studied by the nation's airlines. If the FAA decides that the designs of one planemaker and one enginemaker are markedly superior to all others, the final contracts will be awarded in May. Otherwise the two leaders in each category will be placed in a one-year design competition to decide the winners. Even if contracts are awarded in May, the U.S. can hardly hope...
Mosher has had his eye on Garrett for 15 years, particularly admires its president, Harry Wetzel, 43. A few weeks ago, ailing Curtiss-Wright tried to take over Garrett, offered $50 a share for 700,000 Garrett shares, or 47% of the total outstanding (TIME, Oct 18). Mosher moved in quickly, adding 100,000 shares of Garrett to the 12,000 that Signal had previously owned, thus stalling Curtiss. At this point Curtiss tried again-offering Garrett Stockholders $57 a share. Garrett's management, eager not to be swallowed up by troubled Curtiss-Wright, then sat down for three...
...close-knit spirit encouraged by Edward Antoine Bellande, 65, the balding and genial chairman of the Garrett Corp., a California maker of environmental control systems for jet planes and space capsules. Anxious to keep Garrett both thriving and informal, Bellande has led the fight against a takeover by ailing Curtiss-Wright, which has sought to buy 47% of Garrett's stock. A onetime barnstormer, mail pilot and test pilot who was Charles Lindbergh's copilot on one of the first transcontinental passenger runs in 1929, Bellande now restricts his piloting to the company Convair. Behind his desk...