Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technical aspects of the production are at least on the same level as the acting. The costumes, designed by Leslie Van Zandt, are strikingly varied and little short of beautiful. John Ratte's setting is simple but well adapted to the various places it represents, while the original music by Stephen Addiss acts as an effective bridge between scenes...
...Sabrejet of Korean war fame as the Sabre itself was over World War II's P-51 Mustang. Long and lethal-looking with 45° swept-back wings, the F-100 is the first operational fighter-and fighter bomber-to crack the sound barrier in level flight, broke the official world's record by flying 822 m.p.h. last year. Even then it was under wraps; estimates are that it can top 1,000 m.p.h. with its Pratt & Whitney J57 engine and afterburner going full blast. The F-100 can fly and fight effectively...
...interceptor (the "Iron Dart"), slated for squadron service soon. Powered by a J-57, the rocket-carrying F-102 weighs as much as a DC-3 transport (25,200 lbs.), can climb to 40,000 ft. in less than five minutes, hit something like 1,000 m.p.h. in level flight at combat altitude...
...engine with a 20-mm. cannon." Pencil-slim, with straight, stubby eight-foot wings, it combines relatively light weight (17,000 lbs.) with a big General Electric J-79 engine. The F-104 will do an estimated Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) in level flight...
...Crusader and Grumman's F11F Tiger, the Navy's newest jets. Both are relatively light, have sharply swept wings and needle-nosed fuselages. The F8U is powered by a Pratt & Whitney J-57, the F11F by a Curtiss-Wright J-65. Speed of the F11F: supersonic in level flight. Speed of the F8U: about 1,050 m.p.h...