Word: outclimb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most exciting of the new jets is the sleek Lear Jet (cost: $575,000), which cruises at 530 m.p.h. and can outclimb an F-100 fighter plane to 10,000 ft. Builder William Lear Sr. calls it "the fighting businessman's jet." He has firm orders for 21, hopes to start delivery at the rate of eight monthly by year's end. Among his customers: Rexall, Kroehler and German Steel Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza...