Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were pretty well convinced that the U.S. could see itself safely through the "missile gap" of the early 1960s with Strategic Air Command bombers and a slender intercontinental missile program, Air Force missilemen turned up in Washington last week with a warning and a plan. The warning: reliance on plane-borne SAC will not surely give the U.S. the deterrent it needs. The plan: step up production of the well-tested Atlas missile. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Atlas...
...trip last August was to London in pursuance of a simple but ingenious scheme for raising money: Hume planned to rob a bank close to the international airport and then return to the Continent on a commercial plane for which he had made a reservation. Hume chose a branch of the Midland Bank in a quiet side street in Brentford, outside London. He shot down a bank clerk, scooped up some $3,000, and was in an airplane and winging his way over the Channel before Scotland Yard had a physical description of the robber. Three months later he duplicated...
Rhubarb and her sisters have been named Block Island Forties. They are centerboarders, wider than most ocean racers, and with a unique rounded stem. In the closemouthed tradition of naval architects, Tripp will say only that his design "follows my ideas in relation to resistance and lateral plane, ideas which are somewhat different from some my competitors hold." Lawyer Lorenzen is a little more specific. "It's quite a trick to get a boat with tremendous stability and not too much underbody," he says. "Bill draws his lines very tight. His lines at the forward section are very fine...
...T.W.A. vice president, Jack Frye was equally at home with his burly, 6-ft. 2-in. frame folded behind an executive desk or behind the stick of a plane or draftsman's board. He helped develop some of the planes and practices that became standard among world airlines. With new planes, T.W.A. cut the transcontinental flight time from 48 hours to 16, and at 30, Jack Frye was elected the line's president...
...Film Corp. When political pressures eased him out of the job in 1955, he tried to start his own planemaking company. It never got off the ground. Last week Jack Frye, still determined to conquer a new air world, was in Tucson to seek a manufacturer for a propeller plane he designed. As he was driving a rented car, a speeding station wagon ran through a stop sign and broadsided into him. At 54, the man who had flown 7,000 hours without a serious accident to help pioneer the air age died in the car crash...