Word: kc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk to Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, Contributing Editor Peter Bird Martin flew from New York to Buenos Aires, asked to fly home with LeMay aboard his record-setting KC-135 jet tanker. LeMay agreed to take him only if wind and temperature would permit his heavily loaded jet to leave Ezeiza Airport's short runway safely with Martin's extra weight (187 Ibs.) aboard. He ordered Martin to report back to the plane at 5:30 next morning. In a cool dawn, Martin discovered conditions were favorable, climbed aboard, was able to radio TIME...
Dispersal: SAC's and TAC's bases are overconcentrated, present big targets to Soviet air and missile power. Item: SAC's March AFB at Riverside, Calif, has 90 6-475 and 40 KC-97 tankers, and only one usable runway to get them all into the air come an emergency. The USAF needs six more bases right now, another 100 as soon as Tommy White can get them...
...tankers needed for midair refueling at high altitude and high speed. Today SAC's B-525 must come down from 50,000 ft. to 18,000 ft. and from 650 m.p.h. to a stall-warning 250 m.p.h. to hook on to SAC's prop-driven KC-97 tankers (the equivalent of Boeing's old airline Stratocruisers). Remedy: a speedup of supply of the KC-135 jet tankers now dribbling into the Air Force at the rate of about four a month...
...fiscal 1958 could stop the purchase of all Convair B58 bombers and F106 jet fighters, halt the procurement of McDonnell's F-101B jet fighter, Republic's F-105 jet fighter and Lockheed's C-130 transport, might also slow down production of Boeing's KC-135 jet tanker and B-52 intercontinental jet bomber. It could cancel all fiscal 1958 orders for such missiles as Northrop's Snark, Bell's Rascal, North American's Navaho, and scrub some orders for Hughes's Falcon and Martin's Matador...
Developed by Engineer Leonard S. ("Luke") Hobbs. now United Aircraft's vice chairman, the J57 has been in production since 1953, powers Boeing's eight-engine B-52 heavy bomber and four-engine KC-135 jet tanker-transport, Convair's supersonic F102 interceptor and five other military planes. Soon the even bigger J75 will go into two more important planes, Convair's supersonic F106 interceptor and Republic's F-105 fighter-bomber. To add to its horsepower riches, Pratt & Whitney has important military contracts for a smaller J52 jet engine and a T57 turboprop...