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...last week, a grizzled veteran with eight kills and four rows of ribbons, Low took off from his interceptor base near Seoul. Over northwestern Korea, he and his wingman saw contrails (vapor trails); then Low spotted two MIGs, camouflage painted in green and brown. The enemy planes tried to get away, one zooming, the other diving. Low chased...
...battle jacket-with no rank insigne, but still sporting the flaming-sword shoulder patch of SHAPE -and wool Army trousers, then added a fur-lined Army field parka and a pile hat. First, he flew off in a little L19 Cessna for a look at the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing (where he asked about the capabilities of MIGs), then on to a briefing at the 1st Marine Division's command post, six miles from the front and well within ground-shaking distance of Marine artillery and aerial rocket fire. In the afternoon, he arrived at I Corps headquarters...
...Coming Delta. Most interesting sights of the show for future-minded airmen were carefully guarded glimpses of the Gloster GA5 Javelin interceptor and the Avro 698 bomber. Both are delta-wings, which British (and some American) designers believe are the coming thing for practical supersonic flight. Neither plane was permitted to show its full performance, but the big Avro 698, flown by hot-rod Test Pilot Roland Falk, went into a vertical bank 200 ft. above the viewing stands. It was only the fourth flight for the 698. Said a top U.S. plane manufacturer as the Avro shot past: "That...
...heavy Scorpion is full of radar equipment, it can climb higher than 40,000 ft. Its radar eyes can search out an enemy plane in night or thick weather, "lock" the Scorpion on a collision course with the enemy, and when within range, automatically fire its rockets. The new interceptor, which the" Air Force expects to be in the first line of defense against atomic attack, has already earned an admiring nickname from Northrop's workers: the "Grand Slam...
Hard Times. Jack Northrop began designing an all-weather interceptor six years ago, when no enemy had any A-bombs to drop on the U.S. Northrop has i habit of looking ahead. A onetime garage mechanic, he helped found Lockheed Aircraft, designed the Lockheed Vega, used by Wiley Post on his two flights around the world and by Amelia Earhart on her second transatlantic flight in 1932. On his own, Northrop built the Alpha, forerunner of the modern low-wing, all-metal monoplane, and pioneered multicellular metal construction in commercial airplanes. He had long dreamed of an all-wing...