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...offered Congress a blueprint for cutting $10 billion from the $305 billion budget request submitted by President Reagan just before he left office last January. In his plan, Cheney hopes to spare major strategic weapons like the B-2 Stealth bomber by trimming smaller but costly programs, notably Grumman's F-14D jet fighter (saving: $2.4 billion) and the V-22 Osprey ($7.8 billion), an innovative tiltrotor aircraft made by Boeing and Bell Textron. The Defense Secretary worked the Capitol Hill corridors last week to make his case, while President Bush courted key Senators and Representatives over a series...
Long Island-based Grumman, which has produced military jets since World War II, builds the Navy's F-14D, the highly maneuverable fighter featured in the 1986 film Top Gun. Because Congress has slowed annual production of the Tomcat to just twelve jets, Grumman is reducing its 19,000 work force by 3,100. If Cheney's proposal to cut production even further is carried out, many of the 5,600 Grumman workers who make Tomcats will be put in jeopardy...
Every year the Outing Club returns with the same losing entry. They succeed in distinguishing themselves both as cowards, protecting their delicate complexions behind raincoats and riot helmets, and as dullards, foolishly believing they can pass off their Grumman canoes as hand-made. To these paragons of ignorance we can only say, stay indoors, it may rain...
...some of the old tactics remain valid. "Pilots still like to have the sun at their back," explains Kurt Schroeder, the chief test pilot of Grumman Corp., which makes the Tomcat. "The speeds and altitudes, turning radius and weapons have changed dramatically, but the basic maneuvers are still very similar to World War I." So too is a pilot's need for fast thinking. "Aviation by its very nature frequently requires very quick assessments, judgments and actions," says Schroeder. "And the penalty for making the wrong decision is severe...
Customs could have had its plane sooner, but for more than a year the White House opposed its development and the Navy fought the idea because, critics suspect, the Navy is committed to the Hawkeye for carrier operations. Grumman's overseas sales of Hawkeyes reduce the price the Navy pays. Big sales of the modified Orion could mean higher Hawkeye prices for the Navy...