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Word: f3h (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force is already pulling in its belt on noncombat planes. It canceled orders for 420 T36 trainers placed with Beech and Canadair, recalled 37 C-54 transports that it had leased to airlines. The Navy also canceled Temco Aircraft's "secondary source" contract for some 100 F3H-1 Demon jet fighters. McDonnell Aircraft, the primary supplier, was unaffected. Current backlog of all aircraft orders: $18 billion, enough to keep the industry busy for more than two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Jun. 22, 1953 | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Floberg also showed his audience two more new shipborne jets in production-a bat-winged interceptor called the Douglas F4D "Skyray," and a needle-nosed fighter named the McDonnell F3H. "Demon"-and announced that all six planes would be on duty with the fleet within a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Planes | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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