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...McDonnell Aircraft's F101 Voodoo, a big, 45,000-lb., long-range (estimated at 1,500 mi.) bomber-escort which can also be used as an interceptor or fighter-bomber. Scheduled for operational service this year, it is powered by two J-57s, has a ceiling of 50,000 ft. plus. Speed: around 1,100 m.p.h...
...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...
Died. Major Lonnie Moore, 36, one of the leading jet aces of the Korean war (ten MIG-15 kills, one probable); in the crash of the Air Force's hottest supersonic fighter, McDonnell's F101 Voodoo, which he was testing at the Air Proving Ground Command's Eglin Air Force Base...
...McDonnell's twinjet, supersonic Voodoo (TIME, Dec. 6), was de signed as a bomber escort, but tests were a surprise, showed that the Voodoo was an excellent all-round fighter. Production of the F101 will be greatly increased...
...increased production of the F101 and F-104 without increased appropriations, the Air Force plans to cut production of the F-84 and F-86 (the famous Sabre jet that outshot the MIG 14-1 over Korea...