Word: f101
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will order only 1,500 planes this year compared with 1,760 last year. Next year the cuts will be bigger. Of the fabled Century series of supersonic fighters, the fiscal 1960 budget allocates not a penny for North American's F-100 Super Sabre, McDonnell's F101 Voodoo, Convair's F-102, Lockheed's 1,400-m.p.h. F-104 Starfighter or Convair's F-106. Only one tactical plane is funded in the new budget: Republic's supersonic F-105 fighter-bomber...
Since then, McDonnell has come along fast. From a strictly Navy supplier, the company became a pillar of the Air Force with $1.2 billion worth of orders for its burly F101 Voodoo jet, a plane fast (1,200 m.p.h.) and versatile enough to perform every job from tactical A-bomber to all-weather interceptor. McDonnell went into missiles and helicopters, landed an $8,000,000 contract for its XV1 convertiplane, another $45 million for its high-speed Quail bomber decoy drone. Latest project: the supersonic (Mach 2 plus) F4H fighter, which beat out Chance Vought's F8U3 Crusader...
...cutback will be in "Century Series" supersonic fighters, which currently comprise a big chunk of aircraft production. In the reduction, McDonnell Aircraft will probably make fewer F101 Voodoo fighters than it had hoped, is busy working on a family of supersecret missiles to take up the slack. Lockheed, too, may see some slowdown in orders for its sizzling (upwards of 1,300 m.p.h.) F-104 Starfighter. The Pentagon plans to close out several wings in the Air Defense Command and Tactical Air Command, some of which were to be equipped with F-104s. Yet Lockheed denies any cuts in planned...
Many planemakers feel that they do not keep enough money to do the job. For example, both McDonnell's Navy F3H fighter and Air Force F101 were held up from four to ten months because McDonnell lacked funds for computers and wind tunnels, had to wait in line to use the Government's. Said McDonnell's Executive Vice Pres ident Robert H. Charles: "If we had more money for development facilities, we could save millions...
...single, one-in. hole in a wing can slow a modern jet by as much as 100 m.p.h. And such skilled manpower is hard to find. Though McDonnell has 14,000 workers at its St. Louis plants, it is still desperately short of skilled manpower. Last week, with new F101 orders coming in, McDonnell sent out calls for another 1,000 engineers...