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...From a southern Formosan base, hardbitten pilots of Marine Air Group 11 were flying round-the-clock cover for Nationalist transport planes airdropping supplies to Little Quemoy. At night the marines used F4D Skyrays; during the day they relied on FJ Furies...
...Navy, after ordering slowdowns a fortnight ago in production of its F8U-1. Crusader, A4D-2 Skyhawk and F3H-2 Demon, last week announced another. Delivery schedules on the F4D-1 Skyray fighter manufactured by Douglas Aircraft will also be lengthened. ¶ The Air Force canceled a $100 million flight-research project with Republic Aviation on Republic's XF-103 jet interceptor. Selecting its weapons, the Air Force announced a new contract with North American Aviation for a new air-to-surface missile similar to the 6-47's Rascal...
WESTINGHOUSE will lose its job as a supplier of Navy jet engines because of development troubles. After calling off work on the 10,000-lb.-thrust J40 engine (originally slated to power the Grumman F10F, Douglas F4D, etc.), the Navy has now announced that production of the smaller J46 (about 6,000-lb.-thrust) engine used in the Chance Vought F7U Cutlass will run out towards the end of the year, thus eliminating Westinghouse from the Navy engine program...
...Supersonic aircraft already in production or being tested for the Air Force: North American's F-100, McDonnell's F-101, Convair's F-102, Lockheed's 104 For the Navy: Douglas' F4D Skyray...
FIRST SKYRAY off Douglas Aircraft Co.'s production line has been handed over to the Navy. The bat-winged jet interceptor (F4D), whose experimental prototype flew 753 m.p.h., is the Navy's first truly supersonic combat plane...