Word: flypast
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...otets (father) was understanding, and in 1949 Vasily, not yet 30 and a major general, was handed a juicy job: command of the air force in the Moscow military district. Proudly he led the flypast during May Day military exhibitions, devised formations that spelled "Glory to Stalin" in the skies over Moscow...
Concern for Weapons. The Air Force, on the other hand, was concerned about weapons that will take years to get to the firing line: manned fighters and bombers. After the Moscow flypast put on by the Red air force (see THE WORLD), the U.S.A.F. was quick to suggest that the U.S. is falling behind the Russians in the production of manned military aircraft. Just five years ago, the Russians put on a similar show with similar results-a U.S. rush to produce more manned bombers. That time, the Russians were bluffing about their concern over building a bomber fleet; despite...
...artful campaign to persuade the West that in the rocket age, warplanes are not worth a ruble-or a U.S. defense dollar. "Airplanes," sneered Nikita Khrushchev, "belong in museums." But last week at Moscow's Tushino airport, as the Soviet Air Force staged its first public flypast in three years, it was clear that Soviet aviation designers have been working overtime all the while. More than 100,000 spectators, including Khrushchev, squinted into the bright sunny sky as one new plane after another whooshed into view, then veered sharply away to prevent Western observers from getting too close...
...third supersonic bomber, the medium-range Blinder. First seen in 1957 in prototype, the production model at last week's flypast featured a new tail turret, radar and radar-jamming equipment...
...conventional helicopter carrying a small house slung beneath it and capable of carrying 180 infantrymen (biggest U.S. model, due next year, will lift only 100). Though some of the planes on display were already known to Western aviation experts, and others were simply old models with new touches, the flypast made bunk out of Nikita's boast that Russia had consigned its warplanes to junk. Judging by what they saw, Western observers concluded that the Russians are roughly on a par with the U.S. in the quality of their fighters, clearly ahead in variety, if not quantity, of supersonic...