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...rare moment of relaxing, the Air Force's Vice Chief of Staff, bluff, gruff General Curtis E. LeMay, who two weeks ago set a world record for a nonstop 7,100-mile flight from Japan to Washington (time: 12 hr. 28 min.) in a KC-135 jet tanker, critically checked out the stogie-lighting skill of daughter Patricia Jane, 19. The occasion: a father-daughter dinner at the capital's National Press Club, where pretty Pat won a door prize, but failed to coax her high-flying papa from his chair for even one dance...
...most unenlightened aspect of the whole renegotiation mess is that it ignores how good a job you're doing-how many dollars per pound you're saving the Government by beating cost figures." In seven years of producing B-47 and B-52 jet bombers and KC-97 tankers, Boeing saved $131.5 million on their anticipated prices-and got aggregate incentive profits of some $25 million-or $9,900,000 net after taxes. Yet for all this top performance the U.S. Government charged Boeing with $27.5 million in excessive profits for three of those years. Says Allen...
...line at Westover froze into a stunned shock for an instant, then sprang to rescue stations. Screeching fire trucks and ambulances, their red lights blinking eerily, roared away from the flight line; but there was no rescue. In flat disciplined tones, the Westover control tower operator ordered the fourth KC-135, already set for the mission-and, with Cocoa, scheduled for a nonstop round-trip to London-to return to the flight line...
...recent Air Force disasters, the crash of the KC-135 puzzled investigators most. In the nearly two years it has been in operation, the big (more than 250,000 Ibs., full loaded) jet tanker has met and passed every performance requirement set down for it, broken longstanding flight records, never been in a major accident. This kind of performance encouraged Boeing in its plans to produce a commercial version of the KC-135 (some of which will be in operation by major airlines by the end of the year), and encouraged the Air Force's Special Air Missions squadron...
...Robert Ginsburgh, 63, retired Air Force brigadier general turned chief military reporter for U.S. News & World Report; in the crash of a KC-135 Strato-tanker near Massachusetts' Westover Air Force Base (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...