Word: plane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most controversial projects is the swing-wing F-l l l aircraft, which he promoted as an Air Force-Navy plane that would save $1 billion or more through "commonality." The Air Force model is turning out well enough, but the Navy is still dissatisfied with its overweight version, and the cost is far above original estimates. The computer approach occasionally cut too close to the bone, as when Army requests for helicopters in 1963 and 1964 were reduced, only to cause shortages in Viet Nam soon after...
...will receive his Nobel medal and scroll from the King of Sweden next Sunday. A week of dinners, parties, and dances will follow. "Then, we'll be taking a plane--what's left of us--for Copenhagen," Wald said last night. He will lecture there and visit friends before returning to Cambridge on December...
...newcomers began concentrating on the Mark 20, a prototype four-seater that Mooney (who soon left to join Lockheed Aircraft) had recently designed. The plane was noisy, but its wooden-wing construction enabled Rachal to price it low; by 1959, the company was turning out 180 of the 150-m.p.h. craft a year. The following year, Rachal switched to an all-metal plane, the single-engine Mark 21. The rakishly styled plane grew more popular with the addition in 1964 of a gyro-driven control system that automatically keeps the plane on course without constant pilot corrections...
...company's rapid growth-over the past five years, annual sales have almost tripled, to $15.2 million-Rachal merged last month with Alon, Inc., a Kansas manufacturer of training aircraft. Moving into the twin-engine field, he has contracted to build a 300-m.p.h. turboprop executive plane designed by Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. And next year, in his most ambitious undertaking, Rachal will introduce the Mooney Mustang; a pressurized, single-engine private plane, it will cruise at 230 m.p.h. and altitudes...
...corrected the problems, the Russians finally signaled their satisfaction last summer when they introduced the IL-62 on their year-old Moscow-Montreal runs. A high-flying (42,600 ft.), far-ranging (more than 5,000 miles) ship that resembles Britain's Vickers VC-10, the 186-passenger plane now rivals the best in Western commercial aircraft. To meet U.S. navigational requirements, it has been rigged out with RCA antennas and other American-made avionics gear. And to judge from last week's proving flight, at least, its lissome Russian stewardesses seem ordered to U.S. specifications as well...