Word: pilotless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communist China held an official ceremony celebrating a "major victory" in the shooting down of "a pilotless, high-altitude reconnaissance military plane of U.S. imperialism" over Central-South China. The U.S. reaction was a classic "Who, me?" The widely known fact was that the Chicoms, for once, were not lying...
...pilotless plane the Chinese shot down almost certainly was a Ryan Fire-bee flown out of South Viet Nam. The Ryan Aeronautical Co. of San Diego has sold some 2,000 such aircraft to the Defense Department. With a 12-ft. 10-in. wingspan, the Firebee can fly at a maximum altitude of 61,000 ft., attains speeds of up to 633 m.p.h., and can stay up for an hour and a half. It is launched from a mother ship, generally a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, from a distance up to 200 miles away from the target area. The mother...
...advance study, because military chiefs had an empire-building yen for them. They included a nuclear-powered aircraft, killed in 1961 after 15 years' work and the expenditure of a billion dollars; a jet-powered flying boat on which $450 million was spent; the Goose decoy missile, a pilotless aircraft to fool enemy radar, canceled after $80 million in costs because the contrivance "could not be recovered once it was launched." As closely related to the TFX situation, he cited the Navy's attempt to develop two fighters, the F4H-1 and F8U-3, that were so similar...
...Picked up a Pratt & Whitney J52 jet engine that had been under low-priority development for planes for two years, used it to power Hound Dog, which is like a pilotless bomber...