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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crash raised a new storm of scan dal over what is already the most controversial warplane ever built. After the first two crashes, both of which occurred in the first week of combat, the Air Force grounded the F-111. Though it failed to find the first plane, the Air Force did recover the wreckage of the second. After sifting through the twisted parts, its investigators declared that the cause of the crash was a $1 tube of sealant that had been left behind, apparently by a careless mechanic. Somehow, it had worked its way into the automatic flight mechanism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Another of Our Aircraft Is Missing | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

Concluding that the plane was basically sound, the Air Force ordered the F-111s back into action on April 12, replacing the downed planes with two fresh ones. For nearly two weeks they flew some dozen missions, mostly at night over North Viet Nam, until the third plane went down. Mystified by the malfunctions, the Air Force was at a loss to say what was bugging the enormously complicated fighting machine, which carries three tons of electronic gear. After withholding the surviving F-111s from action for a few days, it sent them once again into combat. This time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Another of Our Aircraft Is Missing | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...attended." The group questioned every tourist, businessman and teacher who came through Peking about his travels inside China, then sent the information out of China in the safety of French diplomatic packets. Forbidden to visit the grave of Confucius in Shantung, Girard contrived to overfly it in a small plane so as to describe it better. When the two-year task was finally completed, a copy of the book was sent to Chou, who found only two things to complain about: that the book called Chiang Kai-shek's regime in Taiwan a "government" and Hong Kong "a British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: A Vicarious Trip | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...President George E. Keck. "All three are excellent products of engineers' genius." What finally decided United on the DC-10 was what Keck called "favorable contractual terms." In other words, to come closer to Lockheed's $15 million offer, McDonnell Douglas had cut down its price per plane by almost $1,000,000-to $155 million, including engines. And the cut now applies to the American order as well. That kind of stiff price competition means bargains for the airlines; it also means that both airframe companies will have to scramble for volume to make money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Back in the Fight | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

Price also seemed to be the key reason behind the choice of engines for United's DC-10s. All the planes to be built by Lockheed will be powered by British Rolls-Royce turbines. United, however, opted for General Electric's CF6/36 turbofan at slightly over $2 million per plane, putting the U.S. enginemaker a bit below Rolls. It is a price that may well move American to choose G.E. engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Back in the Fight | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

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