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...code-named "Foxbat" by NATO, is the latest Russian interceptor. It can fly at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) and climb to 80,000 ft., 20,000 ft. higher than the operational ceiling of the U.S.-built F-4 Phantoms of the Israeli air force. This is the first time that the MIG-23, which is far too hot for Egyptian pilots to handle, has been sent outside the Soviet Union. MIG-21, the standard first-line Soviet fighter, has been sent in to replace planes lost last year in the war of attrition over the Suez...
Daley caters to the downtown interests, ?? suburbanites and the Republicans. So why d?? he keep winning? One might argue that mo?? talks louder in politics than in most places ?? this is partly true. The downtown interest b?? couldn't work alone, but wedded to the mach?? they seem invincible...
ELWOOD QUESADA, the first Federal Aviation Administrator, was excited at the end of his conversation with Dwight Eisenhower. The first reporter to find out why was TIME'S Jerry Hannifin. "I've just seen the President," Quesada told him, "and he's approved the commercial Mach...
...articles on the SST. He has firsthand familiarity with more than the politics and economics of the issue. Flying is Hannifin's hobby as well as his journalistic specialty. He has piloted a variety of military and civilian aircraft, from fighters to jetliners, and has himself flown at Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound...
...seen as a vote against exploring the unknown. It is not a triumph for the hysterical foes of all technology. For one thing, the SST was vulnerable to the criticism that it does not represent a genuine technical advance. Much of the know-how necessary to build a Mach 3 aircraft-in titanium metallurgy and engine intake design, for example-was already in hand from development of the X-15, the SR-71 and the B-70. Says Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell: "The technology argument made no sense to anybody who followed it seriously...