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...before leveling off for the hour-long return flight to Saigon. McLaughlin's desire to gain altitude quickly, a routine precaution among pilots in Viet Nam, was heightened in this case both by the Viet Cong's post-Tef offensive and by the unusual payload that he was carrying. Back in his plane's cargo compartment, attired in green Army fatigues, 45 Americans-businessmen and journalists-slumped wearily in bucket seats after a fact-finding trip into Viet Nam's war-riddled countryside. For all hands, the visit to Viet Nam was the focal point...
...eyes. But before he could, the rapid-fire, machine-gun-bullet orgasms of pain were exploding in his jaw. Jab! Jab! Jab! The patient jammed his eyes shut. His whole body was tight, as time after time he felt the needle piercing deep into his gums, driving its payload of novocaine into his bloodstream. "Just relax," he heard the nurse saying. The injections were done. He slumped back into the chair...
...speed of Mach 2.5 (1,800 m.p.h.) at high altitude on the way to its target. Then, swooping low to avoid detection by enemy radar, it would slow to Mach 1.2 (790 m.p.h.) in the denser air. With a crew of four, it would carry a payload twice that of the B-52 and, with mid-air refueling, would have a range of more than 6,000 miles...
...trim Boeing's hopes for a mass-travel market that would have some 450 of the new planes in service by 1976. Then, too, unforeseen competition now looms from Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas, whose "airbuses," originally designed for shorter hops, could well be stretched in range and payload. Still, Boeing expects that history will repeat itself. When the last "new era" in flight came in the late 1950s, the then-new jetliners expanded air travel beyond even the most optimistic expectations...
Even with its new model, Boeing will have to pare down the plane's passenger capacity to 250. That will still be a sufficient payload to make the plane profitable, however, and will enable the craft to achieve the designed range. The new version, employing the familiar fixed-wing concept, should also take less time to build. That is particularly important, since the slower (1,550 m.p.h.), delta-wing Anglo-French Concorde, a rival SST entry, is scheduled to make its first test flight this fall and start commercial service in mid-1971, five years earlier than...