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...sign for the balance. Thus was born the company which Donald Douglas engineered into the world's biggest (1956 net sales: $1,073,515,000) airframe company; Douglas set off a chain reaction that made Los Angeles the center of a $2.5 billion aircraft industry (Lockheed, North American, Northrop), as well as the base for the newer missiles and electronics industries...
INTERCONTINENTAL SNARK missile is going into large-scale production, will be first missile with 5,000-mile range assigned to operational units of Strategic Air Command. Air Force will give Northrop Aircraft, Inc. a $73 million contract to turn out subsonic Snark...
...101B jet fighter, Republic's F-105 jet fighter and Lockheed's C-130 transport, might also slow down production of Boeing's KC-135 jet tanker and B-52 intercontinental jet bomber. It could cancel all fiscal 1958 orders for such missiles as Northrop's Snark, Bell's Rascal, North American's Navaho, and scrub some orders for Hughes's Falcon and Martin's Matador...
Then there are developing the Air Force's "cruise" missiles, the Northrop Snark and perhaps the North American Navaho, in effect advanced unmanned airplanes of 5,000 miles range which, unlike the ICBM, can be controlled by their mechanism on their infinitely slower way all the way to the target. The Air Force is also developing Rascal, a promising supersonic air-to-surface missile; Thor, a 1,500-mile ballistic missile; and Titan, a second design for an ICBM. The Navy has a costly but promising project to develop Polaris, a 1,500-mile ballistic missile which will carry...
...Midair Collision!" Twenty-five minutes after Carr's DC-7B took off from Santa Monica, Northrop Test Pilot Ronald E. Owen, 36, swished skyward from an airport some 50 miles to the northeast, near the desert community of Palmdale, in an F89 Scorpion twin jet interceptor. The Scorpion, equipped with new radar, was soon to be returned to the Air Force. Owen and Radarman Curtiss A. Adams, 27, were flying a final chore: three runs at another jet 25,000 ft. up, to test the ingenious radar mechanism that puts the interceptor on the trail of invading aircraft, fixes...