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Until the ICBMs are ready, the Air Force must depend upon its manned thermonuclear bombers reinforced by its only near-operational intercontinental guided missile, the Northrop Snark, an air-breathing, star-guided, 600-m.p.h. missile that can take a hydrogen warhead 5,000 miles to target or deploy electronic countermeasures over an enemy heartland to lure defenders away from main bomber strikes elsewhere...
SNARK MISSILE OUTPUT will be boosted by Air Force. Northrop Aircraft's $73 million production contract will be raised to $143 million, enough for 35 to 40 of the 5,000-mile-range guided missiles, plus equipment for ground-support stations now starting to go up (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...production. Now with more compact warheads and with better missiles such as the Atlas and Titan ICBMs, which travel at 16,000 m.p.h. coming along more rapidly than expected, the Navaho would probably be obsolete before it ever got into operational use. Instead, the Air Force decided to produce Northrop's pilotless Snark bomber, a much slower (650 m.p.h.) but more nearly operational missile, as an interim weapon until the huge ICBMs are in production...
This long-discussed system remained largely a dream for 50 years. But last week Northrop Aircraft, Inc. recorded the results of seven years of experimentation with "low drag boundary layer control." After elaborate tests with models in wind tunnels, Northrop engineers fitted the wing "of an F94 jet fighter with a "glove" containing twelve slots running lengthwise along the wing. A suction pump driven from the main engine pulled air into the slots and pushed it out astern with the rest of the jet's gases, adding a little to the thrust. The reduction of drag was extraordinary, even...
Vice President Edgar Schmued of Northrop thinks that B.L.C. (Boundary Layer Control) will be the next great advance in airplane design. It will be most useful in long-range airplanes, since Northrop's figures indicate that the range of any B.L.C. airplane should be almost double that of a "turbulent" plane of the same weight...