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After seventeen years of broadcasting only to the University, within the next four to six weeks WHRB will become an FM station, at 107.1 MCS., covering the Metropolitan Boston area, while the carrier current operation will continue at 550 KC. We received our construction permit from the FCC on February...
...calls for a $4.6 billion expenditure to buy 1,515 new aircraft-some 1,000 fewer than originally intended, and the lowest number since 1954. Of the total, more than 50% will go for the eight-jet Boeing B-52 bomber and its smaller aerial nursemaid, Boeing's KC-135 jet tanker. All told, the Air Force will order 480 B-52s and KC-135s (cost: $6,000,000 and $4,500,000 apiece respectively), leaving only $2.1 billion for all other planes...
...fruit juice, soup, freshly baked cakes, candy bars. At four or five strategic places along the route (the exact number is secret), the jet-age birds dropped down from their 40,000-ft.-plus altitude to drink in tons of fuel, delivered at prop-age altitudes by four-engined KC-97 Stratotankers,* then, with great-but wasteful-surges of power, climbed back to their more efficient heights...
...midyear, SAC will take delivery on its first Boeing KC-135 jet tankers, which, had they been in operation last week, would have cut about six hours off the round-the-world mission. *Since the flyers traveled at about half the speed of the earth (1,000 m.p.h. at the equator), the time span between sunrises was compressed to 16-hr. "sun days," half light, half dark. They caught their first sunset over the Great Lakes, a few hours after their i p.m. takeoff, thereafter saw the sun rise and set at eight-hour intervals, i.e., sunrise over the Atlantic...
Icing to Order. To measure accurately the icing hazards to new model planes, Wright Air Development Center at Dayton has outfitted a KC-97F tanker with a special spray nozzle. Filled with water instead of fuel, the tanker climbs up until it reaches the proper temperature to produce water droplets, supercooled and ready - about F. Then it looses a spray that freezes on the test plane following 300 ft. astern...