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AIRCRAFT MERGER will put Northrop Aircraft, Inc. in helicopter business if talks with Pennsylvania's Vertol Aircraft Corp. succeed. Northrop wants to swap two shares of stock for one (542,100 shares outstanding) of Vertol, add Vertol's growing (1955 sales: $58 million) helicopter business to its F89 interceptor and Snark guided-missile production...
...Vermont, the nation's first woman lieutenant governor, Consuelo Northrop Bailey, 56, declared that she would not seek office in 1956, thereby upsetting a long-standing Vermont tradition that the lieutenant governor inevitably runs next for governor. Since flouncing into politics 30 years ago, Consuelo Bailey has handily defeated male opponents for such offices as county prosecutor, state representative, state senator, speaker of the Vermont house, and lieutenant governor. Understandably nervous male politicos noted that while last week's statement took her out of this year's gubernatorial race, it carefully avoided mention of the future...
Supersonic Parachute. To rescue pilots from a supersonic bailout, Radioplane Co., a Northrop subsidiary, has devised a special parachute called the Skysail, packed tightly in a container that an air blast cannot tear open. When the pilot jumps, his hunched body slows down quickly. When his speed is subsonic (and the pilot is probably unconscious), the chute is designed to open gradually, distributing the shock over a longer interval than the standard parachute. Moreover, a special harness spreads the deceleration forces over a larger area of the pilot's body. If he is able to survive the hammer-like...
Pereira and Luckman landed their first big overall master-planning job in 1951: a huge guided-missile test center at Florida's Patrick Air Force Base. After they had planned a $35 million jet base at Palmdale, Calif, for Lockheed, North American, Northrop and Convair, Northrop awarded the partners a contract to design its new $10 million engineering center. Pereira and Luckman's biggest master-planning job to date: overall supervision of U.S. Air Force and naval base construction in Spain (cost: $300 million...
KENNETH B. YOST Supervisor, Hydraulics and Controls Dept., Engineering Test Northrop Aircraft, Inc. Hawthorne, Calif...