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...week's end, Washington buzzed with reports of a speedup in production of Boeing's four-jet KC-135 tanker and a pair of new supersonic fighters, McDonnell's F101 and Lockheed's 1,000-m.p.h. F-104, still in the test-flying stage. For the B-52 program alone, the acceleration would probably increase the Air Force budget for fiscal 1955-56 somewhere between $300 and $400 million...
...Better jet interceptors are needed. The F-86D, the fastest fighter now in Air Defense squadrons, is hard to handle. Current interceptors have enough staying power for only one or two quick bursts at any intruders. The big new F101 Voodoo, which has the range and speed for repeated passes, is only just going into production...