Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavy to swim, but will nonetheless be able to crawl under wa ter, like a crawdad, on river, lake or ocean beds, traverse steeply slanting terrain and raise its turret to peer over hills and walls. It is air-conditioned and insulated against atomic radiation. The first experimental model is scheduled for completion next summer...
...turbine engines and traveling on cushions of air, the ship could quickly transport troops to trouble spots, be adapted as a high-speed aircraft carrier or as a moving platform for deploying anti-missile missiles and ICBM batteries at sea. Though the program is still in the model stage, the Navy believes that it can have a seagoing version within a decade, feels that the ship will completely change naval warfare...
...planes remain so popular. United Air Lines has just ordered 18 more stretched-out DC-8-61 (251 passenger) liners and six DC-8F freighters, for $220 million. In a bid to capture still more of the swelling market for transports, Douglas last week rolled out the first production model of its DC-8-62, the world's longest-range (5,750 mi.) commercial jet, for flight testing. The company already has orders for 30 of them...
...routes, and reaches as far east as Helsinki, Moscow and Cairo. It has made a profit every year but two in the past ten. Its safety record is excellent-six fatal air crashes in two decades, only two of them since 1960-and its pilots are the very model of sturdy British reliability. BEA's troubles are not in the air but on the ground. The line seems unable to service its planes or passengers...
Bigger Competitor. Lockheed's rival in the competition is Boeing Co., which has not won a major military plane or missile award since 1958. Boeing is betting on a swing-wing model whose wings tuck back at high speed and open out for landings. Called the Boeing SST 733, it could achieve the same speed and stratospheric altitude as Lockheed's 2000. Boeing is building a mockup, plans to display it around September. The plane has just undergone major modifications, making it heavier (300 tons v. Lockheed's 250 tons), longer...