Word: interceptor
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...Maurice de Murville from Washington to New York in 35 minutes, setting a civil aviation record In pure research, France's large Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest (S.N.C.A.S.O.) is flying its Trident, a jet-and-rocket-powered interceptor, at supersonic speeds, while the tiny (400 workers) Leduc Co. has built an even more radical fighter with a needlelike plastic cockpit and a 143,000-lb.-thrust (at 621 m.p.h.) ramjet engine. Carried aloft on the back of a mother ship and released at a high speed, the Leduc ramjet has already...
...defense chiefs' reasoning: for all their enthusiasm and World War II experience, the auxiliary pilots and mechanics would find the latest jets, e.g., the F-86 Sabre or the CF-100 all-weather interceptor, too hot to handle without extensive extra training.* Explained one R.C.A.F. officer: "Things are different now. The whole bloody war might be won or lost in the first half hour...
With the auxiliary discounted as a backstop, Canada's first-line air defenses are thin. The bulk of R.C.A.F. fighter strength (300 aircraft) is assigned to NATO in Europe; only nine understrength interceptor squadrons (140 jets) are stationed in Canada. As a stopgap measure, the R.C.A.F. plans to bring home squadrons up to full strength (216 aircraft) by year's end. Canadian and U.S. defenses are well coordinated, and in a crisis Canada's planners presumably would look for help from the south. Yet the hard fact is that if A-bombs start to fall...
...delta-winged Convair interceptor loaded with Hughes Aircraft electronic equipment, was planned as the mainstay of U.S. air defense from 1957 until 1960. Outperformed in most categories by the Voodoo and found full of bugs, it was redesigned and is at last in production, but the F-102 program will not be accelerated...
...Lockheed's bantam (seven-ton) daytime interceptor, which may go as fast as 1,500 m.p.h., will share star billing with the F-101. Production will be sharply stepped...