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...Lift. Von Rosen, 59, is a Swedish nobleman with a passion for airplanes and a penchant for underdogs. "Once I get into a plane," he says, "I feel that I can do just about anything as long as I believe in it." As a young man he flew a Heinkel air ambulance in Ethiopia, helping victims of Italian aggression. When Russia attacked Finland, he signed up as a lieutenant in the Finnish air force. In the Congo in 1960, Von Rosen flew supplies for Swedish troops on United Nations peace-keeping duty. Now a senior pilot for a charter flight...
...forward at supersonic speed. Its designers admit that the vertical engines will be dead cargo most of the time, but they think vertical engines will have less effect on performance than dual-purpose engines that are too powerful for efficient horizontal flight. A German V/STOL, the Bölkow, Heinkel and Messerschmitt VJ-101C, varies the French formula slightly by having two main engines that are tiltable and supplementing their thrust with two vertical-lift engines. The VJ-101C has made many vertical takeoffs with successful transition to horizontal flight...
...outfits-Focke-Wulf and Weser-late last year merged to form the Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke, now Germany's largest planemaking company (7,000 workers). Last week Claudius Dornier, 79, boss of his family-owned aircraft company, agreed to join the four leading planemakers in southern Germany-Messerschmitt, Siebelwerke, Heinkel and Bolkow-in establishing a joint company for research and development. The leading power in the new company is Ludwig Bolkow, 51, a wartime designer for Messerschmitt and a leading Eierköpfe, who in 1956 set up his aeronautical research outfit and began concentrating on electronics, advanced helicopter design...
...appointment of Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman as Agriculture Secretary was strongly opposed by his lifelong friend and political ally, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. The night before Kennedy decided to name Freeman, Humphrey-who had backed Missouri Farmers Association President Fred Heinkel for the job-strongly protested the presidential choice. Kennedy was not impressed...
Others failed to meet the confrontation test. Fred V. Heinkel, head of the Missouri Farmers Association, was a leading contender for Agriculture Secretary until he arrived in Georgetown. But he had no answers to several key questions put to him by Kennedy. Jack was astounded and, to double-check, had Bobby question Heinkel alone. When Heinkel left, late in the afternoon, he was no longer in the running. Jack settled on Minnesota's defeated Governor Orville Freeman, a Marine combat veteran, for Agriculture...