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...these things added weight: one extra pound of gadgetry can add ten pounds to the plane because of needed structural changes, extra fuel capacity, etc. They also added to the cost: F-86s cost $500,000 apiece, v. $100,000 for World War II's Mustangs. But with all due credit to the superb pilots, Dutch Kindelberger is convinced that the gadgets have more than paid off in Korea. Says he: "The best jockey in the world can't win on a lousy horse...
...submarines, and ended the war with $5,600,000 cash in reserves. Hopkins sought bargains to even out the submarine business, grabbed up Canadair in 1947 from the Canadian government for $8,000,000, half its cost. In 1949 he got the Canadian license for North American's F-86s, gave Canadair its biggest growth ever. Last year Hopkins created General Dynamics for his two companies...
...raised it still higher with his biggest piece of news. Within a week or two, the first U.S. F-86 Sabre jets will be landed in Europe to replace F-84 Thunderjets. A Canadian wing stationed in France is already flying Sabre jets. With F-86s, battle-tested in Korea and equipped to deliver tactical A-bombs, U.S. fighter pilots will at last feel able to cope with the Russian MIGs, if they have...
...have left the front-and in many cases the service, the Pentagon must check back into company records to see who is entitled to the money. This paper work alone, the Pentagon estimates, will cost $250,000,000-more than enough to buy a supercarrier or one thousand F-86s...
...bored through rain to hit Red positions, supply dumps and North Korean highways suddenly busy with increased traffic to and from Communist front lines. They ran into Russian-built MIGs for the first time since late July, but the Red pilots concentrated on the slower F-80s, damaging one, and ducked the whistling F-86s and Meteors. All along the front the fighting men had their eyes on Kaesong-and their fingers on their triggers...