Word: mache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year Argentina bought 25 subsonic Douglas A-4B fighters from the U.S. Chile promptly dashed out for more planes and was soon negotiating for the Hawker Hunters. Not to be outdone, Peru last week was discussing purchase of 16 Mach-2.1 English Electric Lightnings and a flock of advanced-model Hawker Hunters. Meantime, Venezuela was suddenly losing its love for its F-86 Sabre jets, which it bought from the U.S. five years ago. So it, too, was dickering-with Sweden for 20 Saab
...safety-boosting innovations. The hinged nose dips 15° during takeoffs and landings so that pilots can see better. So-called "double-delta" wings-thinly tapered in front and broader at the rear-prevent stalling at low speeds, give extra stability in the treacherous turbulence of travel at Mach...
...most hostile report of all concerned one of the oldest controversies of McNamara's Pentagon tenure: his 1961 cutback on funds for big bombers and his subsequent decision to replace them in the next ten years with the FB-111, a flashy (Mach 2.5) modified fighter...
...catching on so fast that it should oust open-hearth production as the U.S. norm by the end of next year. As a spectacle, the oxygen furnaces of such firms as Bethlehem, National, Republic and Kaiser out-inferno Dante. When a pipelike lance stabs the molten iron with a Mach 2 jet of high-pressure oxygen, the cauldrons burst into a maelstrom of 3,000° metal, boiling noxious smoke and spewing fireworks. The process not only enables steelmen to cook a batch of steel in 40 minutes instead of six to ten hours in an open-hearth furnace...
...longer term, Britain will ally itself with Continental countries, notably France, to build a European aerospace industry that might do battle against the Americans. The chief hope is the Anglo-French Mach 2.2 Concorde, which is likely to be the world's first supersonic airliner. It is slated to go into service in 1971 or 1972, at least two years ahead of the U.S. supersonic liner. Production of an Anglo-French prototype is on schedule, though development costs have risen from $500 million to more than $1 billion. Beyond that, there has been talk about jointly built military craft...