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...bucket-seated C-47, its U.S. Air Force insignia still showing faintly through a poor Iranian paint job, settled to the landing strip at Masjid-i-Sulaiman last week and rolled up to the hangar line. Out stepped Hussein Makki, firebrand of Iran's three-man Oil Liquidation Board, for a look at what an oilfield is like...
Trundled out of Pratt & Whitney's experimental hangar at East Hartford, Conn. one day last week, the huge, red-tailed bomber looked like any other B-50. Actually, it was like no other plane in the world. The earth shook as Test Pilot Gil Haven revved up the plane's four Wasp Major engines, each one as powerful (3,500 h.p.) as a diesel locomotive. Then he sent the big silver plane thundering down Rentschler field, pulled it up into...
...believe," said Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter, "that it is a sound and calculated risk." Before the first test model had even left the hangar, Boeing Airplane Co. was ordered to tool up for full-scale production of its huge, swept-wing B-52 jet bomber, a bigger, faster version of the B-47. Intended as a replacement for the giant, cigar-shaped B-36 (and as a rival of a new sweptwing, all-jet B-36), the swift new heavy, powered by eight jet engines, will have almost the same range and bomb load...
...Donnell, whose B-29s had bombed nearly everything in North Korea worthy of their attention, spoke the tough hangar talk of an airman. He was talking of capabilities, not of intentions. But those who were concerned with the Larger Picture were horrified at the possible suggestion that the U.S. might drop atom bombs on China. For his tough hangar talk, O'Donnell was duly slapped down by the Air Force's boss, General Hoyt Vandenberg, then went back to his proud job-command of the Fifteenth Air Force (long-range bombers) at March Air Force Base, Calif...
...double-timed all the way back into town and invested all his savings in a wool cap with earflaps and a pair of bicycle goggles. Clutching his package he trotted back to the field and unobtrusively made his way around to an abandoned hangar on the far side of the landing area. From the doorway of the hangar he watched for a chance to put his idea into effect...