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...Force KC-135 jet tanker that crashed at Massachusetts' Westover Air Base last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) took with it James Lukens McConaughy Jr., 42, chief of TIME-LIFE Washington Bureau since August, 1957, one of the most respected correspondents in the capital...
...news tickers were already aclatter with the bulletins late that night, as the second of four Boeing KC-135 jet tankers lined up on Runway 23 at Westover. The rain that fell a few hours earlier had washed away the fog, and now visibility was good, and the skies were smeared with only a slight overcast. The first plane, Alpha, was skyborne; next came Bravo, and it poured down the runway, lifted up, trailing four black swirls of smoke. The third tanker, Cocoa, rolled into take-off position and got ready to follow...
Point of Commitment. Plane Commander Broustas, an 5,000-hour Strategic Air Force veteran and one of the most experienced of all KC-135 pilots, got his take-off clearance from Westover Tower at 12:30. Broustas acknowleged the tower, moved his four throttles up to full power, released his brakes and began to roll. The plane picked up speed but not quickly; it was carrying thousands of pounds of fuel. It passed its V-1 and V-2 marks-the last point for chopping throttles, and the point of commitment to take-off-and broke ground exactly...
...Mars, now up for sale, added that it would be safer to test a nuclear plane over sea than over land areas, where a crash might expose civilians to explosion and radiation. The Air Force said it could adapt its operational B-52 intercontinental jet bomber or its KC-135 jet tanker, but added that it was much more interested in getting a supersonic nuclear jet that would provide a new operational weapons system than it was in winning a round in psychological warfare. In the end the meeting agreed only that 1) the atomic-plane project needed more study...
Showing off the quality of its fast-building force of Century-series jet planes and especially the capabilities of its new KC-135 jet air-to-air refueling tankers, the U.S. Air Force brought down a whole set of "high-speed flight records. Blasting off a runway at Ontario International Airport near Los Angeles one morning last week, four McDonnell RF-101 jets headed for New York. Coursing at 40.000 to 50,000 ft. over Albuquerque, Oklahoma City. St. Louis and Pittsburgh, the pilots of the twin-jet Voodoos dropped down only to 35,000 ft. for four or five...