Word: interceptor
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...authoritative magazine Aviation Week, the All was trucked in pieces out of Lockheed's secret "Skonk Works" at Burbank, Calif., and assembled for flight testing at a hidden Nevada base called "The Ranch." When its secret could no longer be kept, the airplane was described misleadingly as an "interceptor." It is more likely to be anything but. It sacrifices everything for extreme speed at extreme altitude (probably above 125,000 ft.), where there is nothing to intercept...
...President of the U.S. had some electrifying news. With an air of quiet pride, he announced that the U.S. had secretly developed and successfully tested an aircraft that is far in advance of any ever seen before. Called the A11, the sleek, razor-winged interceptor flies higher and faster than any jet aircraft in history, promises a major breakthrough toward the futuristic world of flight at more than three times the speed of sound...
...Delhi this week is a team of U.S., British, Canadian and Australian air force officers. Foreseen is the lengthening of Indian runways and the establishment of a radar network so that Western interceptor squadrons, complete with pilots and ground personnel, can move into India to provide a protective air umbrella over its cities. The idea would not quite constitute a military alliance, but it would surely be India's most decisive step away from neutralism...
Iceland. An Air Defense Command unit of fighter-interceptor planes - purely defensive. Also a Navy antisubmarine installation...
...same time. Lockheed's manned birds were flying high. The Navy's lumbering antisubmarine P2r plane, the Hercules cargo transport and the F-104 all-weather jet interceptor brought 1961 sales of another $459 million. And Lockheed, the biggest beneficiary of the Pentagon's new emphasis on brush-fire mobility and military airlift, last March won a contract to build the big military transport plane of the future, the 158-ton. 550-m.p.h...