Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Being the world's leading builder of commercial jet aircraft, the Boeing Co. rings up sales records as routinely as it rolls new planes off its assembly lines...
...Akron's Art Arfons, 40, is not the luckiest man alive, he is certainly lucky to be alive. Three times in the last three years, Arfons has driven his jet-powered Green Monster to a new world's land speed record on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats - and each time he has narrowly escaped death when a rear tire exploded and the car went out of control. Last week Arfons was at Bonneville to regain the record he lost last year when Craig Breedlove clocked 600 m.p.h. in his own jet car, Spirit of America...
About 250 ft. from the start, Arfons "kicked in" the jet's afterburner. At the first timing clock, he was doing 550 m.p.h. and accelerating fast...
...have been ordered, and Boeing expects to sell some 400 over the next nine years. Along with more sales of its bread-and-butter 707s and tri-jet 727s, Boeing also picked up its first major Pentagon order since 1958. Under an initial $236 million contract, the company will develop and produce a nuclear-tipped SRAM (for short-range attack missile), a sort of son of Skybolt that can be launched from airborne bombers, guided to targets 100 miles away. SRAM may be worth $1 billion to Boeing eventually...
Died. Colonel James A. Jabara, 43, the U.S.'s first jet air ace, who shot down 15 MIGs in his F-86 Sabre jet in Korea, was currently commander of a Stateside fighter group not yet posted to Viet Nam, though he did talk his way into flying one strafing mission over North Viet Nam after delivering a replacement plane last July; of head injuries when his 16-year-old daughter-who also died of head injuries-lost control of their Volkswagen and the car overturned; in Delray Beach...