Word: kc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Viet Nam, U.S. General Curtis LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff, critically examined the Vietnamese air arm and found it good. Just before hopping into the pilot's seat to fly his jet KC-135 to the Philippines, LeMay said: "It's perfectly apparent to me that the Vietnamese government is making rapid strides in its efforts to clear the country of Communist insurgents." Other recent visitors to South Viet Nam were not so sure...
...people out there in radio-land are advised that former Student Council president Howard J. Phillips '62 and former Council member Roger M. Leed '61 will clash in debate on the Jerry Williams show on WMEX (1510 kc) at 10 p.m. tonight. It should be just like old times...
...Result: Wall Street was taken completely by surprise. Lockheed stock jumped 55 points in one day. Investors knew that besides the military contract, commercial airlines will probably order the planes for their cargo service just as they did when Boeing developed its 707 passenger jet from its Air Force KC-135 tanker...
...Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha on twelve-hour shifts. Point of the flying command post is to provide battle direction in case all or one of SAC's surface communications centers are bombed. The airborne commanders are SAC's generals, and the flagship is a converted KC-135 jet tanker loaded with communications equipment and capable of flying, if necessary, for 15 hours without refueling...
...Staff Curt LeMay that permits FAA civilian flight inspectors to take the Strategic Air Force's big-plane jet training at Castle AFB in California. Result: 14 have become qualified, a dozen more are in training. (Quesada himself has been checked out in the Air Force's KC-135, military version of the 707; on business flights, however, he usually pilots one of FAA's T-33 jets or borrows a fighter from the Air Force or the Navy...