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...wrought by U.S. bombs. But they showed no inclination to allow inspections of military targets. The U.S. displayed aerial photographs of the damage at the Benina air base near Benghazi showing the wreckage of at least four MiG-23 Flogger jets, two Mi-8 Hip lightweight helicopters and two F27 propeller-driven aircraft. The Pentagon estimates that at the Tripoli military airport the U.S. took out five Il-76 transports and caused major damage to several buildings. Defense officials admit that damage to the Sidi Bilal facility was less than they had expected, and withheld the results of bombing...
Only a few months ago, John Connally shuttled between his campaign stops and his enormously successful fund-raising events in the splendor of a chartered Learjet. In his final days, Connally was hopping around the South in a Fairchild F27. It was a castoff from George Bush's Iowa days, the nickname "Asterisk One" only recently scratched off the fuselage...
...later Allied bombers reduced the Fokker plant to ruins. After the war, Fokker executives shepherded the remnants of the company's work force together and began to rebuild. Helped by a $7,000,000 loan from the Dutch government. Fokker introduced in 1958 its first postwar airliner, the F27. Powered by Rolls-Royce Dart engines, the F-27 (price $700,000) carries from 40 to 52 passengers, cruises at 300 m.p.h. It has a maximum range of 1,270 miles and an enviable safety record of only three crashes-all due to pilot error. So far, Fokker has sold...
...West German air forces. The company is also developing a vertical-takeoff supersonic bomber, in conjunction with Republic Aviation, which two years ago acquired one-third of Fokker's stock. But Fokker's chief hope for the future lies in building a jet successor to the F27. Already in wind-tunnel tests are models of the short-haul twin-jet F-28, which would cruise at 500 m.p.h. and carry 44 to 60 passengers. To appeal to underdeveloped countries where flying is booming, Fokker has designed the plane to be cheap, rugged, and simple to operate. "The underdeveloped...
...million in 1948 to $158.6 million last year, now has a $170 million backlog. Profits jumped from $1,211,563 in 1948 to $4,270,650 in 1955, then slipped to $1,951,484 in 1956, $503,331 last year because of a heavy write-off on the F27. Going into 1958, Fairchild is still writing off on the F27, and will probably show a net loss for the first six months. But the company expects military and civilian orders to increase so fast during the latter half of the year that it will be able to show...