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...brain child of one man: Vice President Clar ence ("Kelly") Johnson, the same Lockheed Aircraft Corp. engineer who designed the famed, high-altitude U-2 ten years ago. Under orders from the Eisenhower Administration in 1959, Kelly Johnson and his team got busy in the "Skunk Works"-a secret hangar area at Lockheed's Burbank, Calif., plant where U-2 plans also took shape. The first A11 took to the air last fall...
...Government people wanted to discuss a secret airplane project, so secret that not even General Curtis LeMay, then boss of the Strategic Air Command, knew about it. That night, Kelly Johnson, head of the "Skunk Works"-Lockheed's supersecret project-development division-began clearing out a hangar. "I got 23 fellows," says Johnson, "and we went to work. We didn't even give it a project name; that's a better kind of security. Later, the fellows began calling it 'the Angel...
...Chemung County Airport, despite a bad weather forecast. The atmosphere at Elmira was a pure American blend of up-to-the-minute technology and old-fashioned county fair. Outside were refreshment stands, a chicken barbecue, cotton candy and a sound-truckload of continuous music; inside a large hangar were displays of the latest aeronautical equipment. The door prizes were free glider rides, and there was an afternoon "air parade" of the latest models of private planes. But the most important part was the shop talk and socializing. Said Mrs. Betty Haesloop of Elmira: "Flying certainly has changed my life...
...Sizes. This year's amusement is already in high gear. Back to Sebring came the Ferraris, eleven of them, hidden away in an airport hangar, where brown-coveralled mechanics tinkered lovingly with valves and fuel pumps. They came in all shapes and sizes, from a twelve-cylinder, 420-h.p. experimental car to a 340-h.p. gran turismo, a first cousin of the one that Desi Arnaz tools around Hollywood. Behind these wheels was an international Who's Who of racing: Scotland's Innes Ireland, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez, the U.S.'s Roger Penske, Britain...
...white-robed Shinto priests performed intricate purification ceremonies, a potbellied turboprop transport rolled out of a hangar at Nagoya's Komaki Airport, taxied down a runway and roared aloft. An hour later, when the plane set back down at Komaki, a waiting throng of businessmen and Japanese air force brass broke into exultant banzais. The YS 11, first Japanese-designed commercial transport to be built since World War II, had completed its maiden flight...