Word: pilotless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble with antiaircraft guided missiles has been that they have had nothing satisfactory to shoot at. Pilotless aircraft, usually old crates or small models, cannot fly high enough to reach the operating altitude of modern bombers, and real high-flying aircraft are too expensive to sacrifice...
...designers are working on a supersonic intercontinental bomber, have another Air Force contract for an engineering study for nuclear-powered aircraft. In Boeing's top-secret electronics laboratory, others are busy with a $200 million development and production contract for Boeing's F99 "Bomarc," a pilotless interceptor plane to send after bombers. It is in the secret missiles that Boeing sees the aircraft of the future. Bill Allen and Wellwood Beall are convinced that the airplane and the missile are growing ever closer, will eventually become one and the same. When that day comes, Boeing's Allen...
...strengthen Western Europe's defenses, the U.S. last week gave the ground-to-ground guided missile its first major operational assignment. The Air Force announced that two squadrons of Martin B-61 Matadors, jet-propelled pilotless bombers capable of carrying atomic warheads, will be sent to West Germany this year and deployed "for use in NATO defenses." Although Defense Secretary Charles Wilson denied that the move would "in itself" mean a displacement...
Lockheed has had such success with experiments for a supersonic, pilotless craft that it is setting up a separate Missiles Systems Division to work full time on the project. Chief of the department: Lieut. General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, 49, commanding officer of the Ninth Tactical Air Command in World War II, who worked on missiles before retiring from the Air Force...
Tremendous numbers of men with training in electronics are now being hired in aviation. In the age of push-button warfare which we are now approaching, these men must design the devices which seek out the enemy and guide the pilotless aircraft...