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General LeMay was thinking of Boeing's swept-wing 707 as a rival for Britain's Comet jetliners as well as a flying tanker-transport to refuel his jet bombers in midair. To Boeing, which has built more than 600 of LeMay's six-jet B-47 bombers and is now turning out the eight-jet B-52, the big plane was also a lot more than just an aerial nursemaid. Boeing President William M. Allen thinks his new 707 has an even greater future as the first U.S. commercial jet transport, and has gambled $20 million...
...Rises. The helicopter?by virtue of its ability to rise straight up, to hover motionless in midair, to fly sideways, backward and forward, to feel its way through fog or snow at five miles an hour if necessary, to stop quicker than an automobile, and to lower itself vertically into clearings hardly bigger than the circle described by its rotor blades?began proving itself a priceless beast of aerial burden in the early days of the Korean war. In the last 36 months it has altered the whole world's concepts of transport, and has made itself a unique, irreplaceable...
...controlled guns. When the radar is locked to a target, an electronic computer figures out the target's distance, speed, direction and course. It knows all the answers and can swing the gun so that any shell fired from it will intercept the course of the target in midair. The actual firing can be done either automatically-at the rate of 45 rounds a minute-or by one of the crew. The shells have proximity fuses that explode them as soon as they feel hardware ahead...
Brakeman Stöckli, thrown clear in midair, landed atop a parked U.S. jeep and escaped with minor injuries. Crewman Heiland suffered a broken leg and possible spinal injuries; Crewman Gartmann broke his right shoulder. Driver Endrich, a blond, 32-year-old Zurich salesman, his neck broken, was dead on .arrival at Garmisch hospital...
...Equipment. A graduate of the California Institute of Technology and a World War 1 flyer, Hal Harris was made chief Army test pilot after the war. In 1922, when the wings of a plane he was flying dropped off in midair, he became the first Army pilot to parachute to safety from a disabled plane. Harris racked up 13 air records, test-piloted the first big U.S. bomber in 1922, the six-engine Barling. In 1926 he went to Peru, and flew crop-dusting planes, later became vice president and general manager of Peruvian Airways and from...