Word: mache
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spain is buying more than $200 million worth of the U.S.'s F-4 Mach 2, long-range Phantom fighter-bombers...
...tanks even though the Chrysler assembly line is now turning out five tanks daily compared to one per day before the Yom Kippur War. For 1975 Jerusalem has already indicated that it needs an additional $2.5 billion in arms. Saudi Arabia's recent purchase of 60 easy-to-operate, Mach 1.6 Northrop F-5 "Tiger 2" fighter-bombers, at a cost of $756 million, has thrust it into third place as an American customer, ahead of Greece, West Germany, Spain, Canada and Taiwan...
...Force says it chose the YF-16 over Northrop's twin-engine design because it will cost less ($4.6 million per plane, v. $5 million) and offers "significant" advantages in performance; in 300 hours of testing, the YF-16 prototypes proved to be more agile at the Mach 2 speeds at which the planes were designed to fly. But General Dynamics also showed a shrewd appreciation of Pentagon pride and politics. To power the YF-16, the company chose the same Pratt & Whitney turbofan engines used in the Air Force's costly ($12 million) but cherished new McDonnell...
...French have been working almost as hard to sell their latest Mirage, which is a refinement of a design that is already six years old and, experts say, obsolescent. If the Mirage is less agile and costlier (at $6 million), the French claim that it is also faster (Mach 2.5) than its American rivals. Essentially, however, the French count on a buy-European argument...
...first operational combat jet, which became the workhorse of the Korean War. In the first all-jet air battle, it shot down a Soviet MIG-15, the brainchild of Johnson's Russian archrivals, Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. Kelly achieved an even more impressive performance from the Mach 2 F-104 Starfighter ("the missile with a man in it"), which is only now about to be phased out as NATO's dominant plane. Nor did Johnson neglect civilian aircraft; his graceful three-rudder four-engine Constellations set standards for speed, range and comfort for long-distance travel round...