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While cities are hustling to catch up with the jet age, the wisest airport builders are looking ahead-to the 1970s and 500,000-lb. supersonic airliners. Seattle is building a runway extension long enough-and strong enough-for Mach 3 aircraft. Brussels, by the end of 1961, will be one of the world's best-equipped airports, capable of handling 3,000,000 passengers a year v. the present 1,000,000. Explaining the philosophy behind the avant-garde Dulles airport, FAA Boss Elwood ("Pete") Quesada says: "We designed this airport for the requirements not only of this...
...Mach 3 jets and deep space probes, the oldfashioned, slow-moving train has won a new-fashioned respectability among airmen. "In the Air Force," says the train's commander, Lieut. Colonel Carleton V. Hansen, "the key thing is to feel that what you are doing is important. We all know that Minuteman counts...
...Douglas jets. Its big advantages are speed-some 40 m.p.h. faster than the 707 and the DC-8-and what promises to be impressive economy of operation. Powered by four commercial versions of the General Electric J-jg engine that pushes the Air Force 6-58 Hustler bomber to Mach 2 speeds, the 880 has so much power that even with a full passenger load it needs only 5,800 ft. of runway for take-off (v. 8,000 ft. for bigger jets), can serve almost any airport that handles four-engined planes...
...North Pole; then he wheeled it back all the way to Florida and unleashed one of the Hound Dogs. Still fully operative after the rigors of a combat-type, 10,800-mile, 22-hour plane flight, the missile streaked off on a northern course at close to Mach 2 speed. Then it turned around as directed, headed south, made "dog leg" evasive turns of well over 90°, and landed on target more than 500 miles down the Atlantic firing range...
...many more g. than he can for even a few seconds. Severe though the players' jolt was, it lasted only 5/1000 of a second. Sponsors of the experiment were engineers from the Stanley Aviation Corp., which is building the escape capsule for the Air Force's new mach 2 bomber, the B58 Hustler. In these capsules the pilot will be fired out of the plane by an explosive charge, will get another jolt when the capsule hits the outside air traveling at supersonic speeds...