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...which has 58 of the planes ordered for delivery by 1971 (Lockheed hopes to see that order eventually increased to at least 200), the 540-m.p.h. C-5 is both bigger and faster than Russia's AN-22, until now the largest aircraft in operation. With a maximum payload of 265,000 Ibs. and a range, when fully loaded, of 2,875 miles, the Lockheed plane is powered by four General Electric fanjet TF-39s, the world's most powerful aircraft engines...
...cargo plane only-but the economics should be equally dramatic. Airlines presently account for less than 1% of all North Atlantic freight traffic, but have been making encouraging inroads on ocean shipping on certain types of goods-no-tably clothing. The L-500's huge payload in its 121-ft.-long cargo area would enable airlines to carry freight for as little as 2? per ton-mile, low enough to give surface shipping a great deal of competition on a broader range of cargo...
...main screen against surprise attack, from ascertaining the point of impact until the rocket "deboosts"-about three minutes and 500 miles from target. By contrast, the U.S. now has a 15-minute warning against ICBMs. Experts say that the Soviet FOBS could carry the maximum payload equivalent of 3,000,000 tons of TNT, twice that of the submarine-launched U.S. Polaris missile...
...North's jet airfields (it now has six such fields). Only 13 of the 521 U.S. planes thus far lost over Viet Nam have been brought down by MIGs; antiaircraft fire has downed most of the others. But MIGs frequently force a U.S. fighter-bomber to jettison its payload or to fly into a heavy curtain of flak in order to evade their pursuit, and lately they have been more aggressive in challenging U.S. planes. Red China last week claimed to have shot down three U.S. aircraft over its territories, including an automatically controlled reconaissance plane. But U.S. pilots...
Today it costs about $1,000 a pound to send a payload into space; in ten years, the price is expected to drop to $1 a pound. And when that time comes, engineers should be ready with preprogrammed manufacturing processes that will require the vacuum and weightlessness of space. Joining some of the newer, tougher metals, for example, is a devilishly difficult problem on earth. In orbit, outside any artificial atmosphere, some of them need only be touched together to make a perfect weld...