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...rockets to huge $250,000 missile engines producing the equivalent of 1,750,000 h.p. By the mid-1960s rocket engine spending will probably top $1 billion annually and go on climbing as the U.S. needs ever faster and higher flying weapons beyond the capabilities of conventional jet or ramjet engines, like those on Boeing's Bomarc missile (see below...
...MISSILE CONTRACT is in works for production of Boeing's ramjet Bomarc ground-to-air weapon. Order will use funds originally planned for additional Lockheed F-104 fighters...
Covering its bet on the F-105, North American is also building the long-range ramjet Navaho missile. But development of better missiles may cut back the Navaho program by a sharp 90% in 1958. Yet North American expects to be in healthy shape. Along with Boeing, the company is deep in design studies for a radical new supersonic bomber. Even better, North American was one of the first to jump into rocket engines, and its Rocketdyne division has juicy contracts for missile projects, including the huge Martin and Convair ICBMs...
...BOMARC MISSILE is set to go into large-scale production in spring. Planning final assembly plant for Air Force's long-range, ramjet, supersonic missile, Boeing has option on $22 million Ford Motor Co. plant at Richmond, Calif., is ready to spend $20 million to $25 million converting it, if zoning problems can be settled. Boeing also has option on large site around nearby Parks Air Force Base, may concentrate its missile output in San Francisco Bay area...
...Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest (S.N.C.A.S.O.) is flying its Trident, a jet-and-rocket-powered interceptor, at supersonic speeds, while the tiny (400 workers) Leduc Co. has built an even more radical fighter with a needlelike plastic cockpit and a 143,000-lb.-thrust (at 621 m.p.h.) ramjet engine. Carried aloft on the back of a mother ship and released at a high speed, the Leduc ramjet has already passed Mach 1 in a climb, is expected to hit Mach 2 (1,520 m.p.h. at sea level...