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Rarely has a plane been so popular throughout the Air Force as the F10 Voodoo, introduced to the public last week. This large (20 tons), one-man jet plane, manufactured by McDonnell Aircraft Corp.. can cruise for hours at supersonic speed (Mach...
...Rome's mammoth Cinecitta, Troy was razed for the third time in 3,000 years as Warner Bros.' two-acre wood and papier-maché reproduction of the ancient city (for Helen of Troy) was 80% destroyed by fire. As betogaed extras battled the blaze, cameras churned away for an hour and a half, leaving Warner's hopeful that it could salvage some usable footage from a $95,000 holocaust...
More important, say Convair's experts, is the possibility that raindrops can puncture a jet's fuselage or cockpit blister, causing the pressurized cabin to explode at high altitudes. At 1,520 m.p.h. (Mach 2), a raindrop smashes into a plane with a force of 70,000 Ibs. per sq. in. At higher speeds, raindrops may be as deadly as enemy bullets...
...week, the Air Force was prepared to invest heavily to make hallucination come true. Air Force men have inspected a Canadian mockup saucer, approved a more advanced design, and hope within three years to have a prototype that can take off straight up, hover in midair, and fly at mach 2.5 [nearly 2,000 m.p.h. at sea level]. Its designer: John C. M. Frost, 35, a tall, shy Briton with a passion for flowers and flying saucers...
...flying had given the Air Force a stamp of its own - a skill to rival the technical proficiency of the Navy. For another, the new Air Force was a rich mixture of two generations of flying men: combat-tested elders teamed with youngsters born under the sign of Mach...