Word: mache
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mach Number One [about 640 knots] and climbing through...
Over the past eight years Hawker Siddeley has built some 2,000 Hunters and profited handsomely; but the Hunter is obsolescent in the age of Mach 2 fighters, and orders for it are rapidly running...
...British lines. Foreign lines have shown a marked preference for the bigger, faster U.S. jets. As for military sales, Britain has practically abandoned planes, and missile orders are comparatively small, since the U.S. has supplied Britain with many such weapons. English Electric's hot (Mach 2) P.1 Lightning all-weather night fighter, now abuilding, will not only be the Royal Air Force's first truly supersonic fighter, but very likely its last...
...West Germany is scheduled to have the West's toughest and most modern fighting force in Europe. The 350,000-man Bundeswehr will include a twelve-division army, a small navy, and a 1,300-plane air force built around the speedy (Mach 2) Lockheed F-104 Starfighter...
...Korean combat missions (one MIG downed, one Distinguished Flying Cross, two Air Medals), served in peacetime as a Navy carrier flight instructor, as a test pilot helped develop a whole family of transonic jets: the Cutlass, the Fury, the Demon. Most recent assignment: test pilot for the new Mach 2 F4H McDonnell fighter. Last week Schirra's son, Marty, 8, chortled to his third-grade classmates: "My Dad is going on a rocket to the moon!" Replied a friend nonchalantly: "Have him bring me back a piece of green cheese...