Word: kc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interested hams: 7,000, 11,000 and 18,000 kc...
...company is betting that it will be the first U.S. planemaker to put a true-jet transport in airline service. Boeing Airplane Co., which gambled $20 million on its four-jet 707 transport last year, now has so many military orders for a bigger aerial tanker (the KC-135) version that the Air Force has asked the company to concentrate on defense production, forget about a commercial jet liner for the time being...
...week's end, Washington buzzed with reports of a speedup in production of Boeing's four-jet KC-135 tanker and a pair of new supersonic fighters, McDonnell's F101 and Lockheed's 1,000-m.p.h. F-104, still in the test-flying stage. For the B-52 program alone, the acceleration would probably increase the Air Force budget for fiscal 1955-56 somewhere between $300 and $400 million...
...Ultrasonic vibrations of a ship's hull will keep the ship free of the mariner's ancient scourge, the barnacle, a British inventor announced last week. Birmingham Biochemist M.H.M. Arnold first rigged up a generator to make a bundle of thin metal plates vibrate at 25 kc., found that the plates were clean after long immersion in barnacle-infested waters. Next he fitted generator and plates to the hull of a barnacle-prone 17,000-ton liner. Union Castle, so the entire hull vibrated silently. After an 18-month voyage. Union Castle returned clean. So did a second...
...delivered until 1957. Furthermore, there is little likelihood that a U.S. jet transport will be on the market for some time to come. In Washington last week, Air Force Assistant Secretary Roger Lewis told Boeing Airplane Co., which had hoped to turn out a commercial version of its giant KC-135 jet tanker by 1958, that the Air Force wants Boeing to concentrate on military planes until all defense commitments are filled...