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...advantage over missiles: it can be recalled, recovered and redirected, can seek out mobile ground targets, and if it misses them, come back to fight again. But the Valkyrie's futuristic design embraces qualities far beyond the capabilities of a mere manned weapon. At its Mach 3 speeds and ultra-high altitudes, it makes an inexpensive, i.e., retrievable, launching platform for earth satellites: it could give the space-probing Xi$ a flashing running start, or fire a 9,500-lb. payload into a 300-mile orbit, or even substitute as a first-stage launching vehicle for the man-carrying...
...Mach Number One [about 640 knots] and climbing through...
MCDONNELL AIRCRAFT CORP. will get new contract for more than $100 million from Navy for Phantom II jet fighters, a carrier-based supersonic (Mach 2 plus) plane...
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...