Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such statistics will soon seem modest, for more planes are on the way: last week two squadrons of sleek, barracuda-like F-4C Phantom fighter-bombers swooped down onto the new 10,000-ft. jet strip at Cam Ranh. A third squadron of the 1,500-m.p.h. fighter-bombers is now en route to South Viet Nam, as is an F-100 squadron, and by the end of next March Washington plans to double-to 1,200 planes-the strike force available to U.S. field commanders in the South...
...stage of wind-tunnel studies and drawing-board proposals, the much-heralded U.S. supersonic transport, which is scheduled to carry 150 passengers at speeds up to 1,900 m.p.h. by 1974, is already old-hat to some aeronautical engineers. They are working on a new and swifter generation of jets that will streak into the still unexplored speed range between the Air Force X-15's record 4,104 m.p.h. and the 17,500-m.p.h. velocities of orbiting space capsules. Designed for the near future, these scramjets (supersonic combustion ramjets) will be powered by an engine...
Lift from a Plane. Because the basic ramjet is just about the simplest power plant ever to be airborne, its promise has always excited aeronautical engineers. Unlike the conventional jet, it has neither a complex turbine nor a compressor; it is an open-ended cylinder, known as a "flying stovepipe," with only fuel injection and ignition systems inside...
Died. Frederick H. Rohr, 69, founder and chairman of Rohr Corp., leading U.S. aircraft subcontractor, a mechanic who built and installed all the metalwork on Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, in 1940 formed a company that today grosses $128 million a year making parts for jet aircraft; following a stroke; in San Diego, Calif...
Born. To Art Arfons, 39, new land speed-record holder, who drove his jet-powered Green Monster at 576.5 m.p.h. last week to recapture the record that Craig Breedlove had taken from him only five days before (TIME, Nov. 12), and June Arfons, 41: their third child, first daughter; in Akron, Ohio...