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...first reports came from Cuban exiles in Miami and New York. They were given weight by friendly diplomatic sources in Havana. They added up to a grim warning: Cuban pilots in MIG-21 jetfighters, capable of speeds up to Mach 2.2 and bristling with Soviet infrared homing rockets, were plotting to shoot down President Johnson as he flew to Miami for a Democratic fund-raising dinner on Feb. 27. If they failed in that, the Cubans would try to flash in and ram the President's plane kamikaze-style...
Happily, the peaceful value of the All outweighs its military possibilities. Except for the X-15, which uses impractical rocket propulsion for short bursts of speed, it is the fastest airplane that has ever flown, and it has accumulated vast experience in Mach 3 flight. It is not an airliner itself; it carries only a three-man crew, and most of its fuselage is crammed with fuel. But the great supersonic airliners that the U.S. is anxious to start building will fly at All speed and altitude. In many vital aspects they will be the children of Kelly Johnson...
...France, which had been confident of winning air supremacy with their Concorde supersonic transport. Lockheed's All, and the American technological breakthroughs it implies, makes it almost certain that the U.S. will produce a supersonic plane that will be bigger, faster and cheaper to operate than the Mach 2.2 Concorde...
...more power to the Concorde's Bristol Siddeley engines and to enlarge its Sud-Aviation wings so that the plane can fly as far as New York-Frankfurt. Even with those hurry-up changes, it would not be able to reach Rome or to speed up to Mach 3. Reason: its designers are committed to building it out of aluminum, which warps and melts at the higher speed, instead of waiting to master the techniques of working with tougher titanium, used...
...months, U.S. planemakers, watching the development of the British-French, Mach 2 airliner called Concorde, have worried that the U.S. was falling behind in the field of supersonic flight. Now, with the development of the A11, the U.S., instead, has reached a critical take-off ahead of the rest of the world. In so doing, it may well have revolutionized manned aircraft...