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...construction force of 8,000 men, headed by 2,364 Seabees, worked around the clock on Cubi's 8,000-ft. concrete runway, its deepwater port, its extensive ammunition and storage facilities. Cubi has already cost $47 million, will run to $80 million before it is completed in three years...
...power plants for the craft, the Defense Department is not saying. But the new contracts indicate that the troublesome weight problem-elaborate radiation protection is needed for the crews-may be whipped, or nearly so. Another sign: the Air Force plans to construct a multimilliondollar, 15,000-ft.-long runway at the National Reactor Testing Station near Idaho Falls, Idaho. Its probable use: testing of atom-powered aircraft...
...spread rich Oriental carpets on the desert floor. Hussein organized a Royal Jordanian Automobile Club, outdrove 28 competitors around the hairpin turns of a hill-climbing course. One day he raced his light grey Mercedes-Benz 300-SL at 150 m.p.h. down the Amman airfield's best runway. "I think she could have done better," he grinned, "but the runway isn't quite long enough." At the auto club's Amman garage, Hussein spent days helping mount a Cadillac engine in a racing car chassis. "We call it the flying bedstead," he told a friend. After...
...Master. Under the bright morning sun, 60 drivers sprinted across the wide runway to clamber into cars for the Le Mans-type start. First away was Connecticut's John Fitch, in the most powerful car in the race, a 5.1-liter Chevrolet Corvette (four other Corvettes started out but two failed to last). But the blue-and-white American entry was quickly passed by Hawthorn in his grey D-Jag. Behind him was Moss in his Aston Martin. Fangio, the balding ex-bus driver who was the pampered protege of Argentina's deposed Dictator Juan Peron...
...also have the prototype of the first U.S. private jet plane. By removing the present gas tank from the fuselage and carrying gas in wing tanks, the T-37 can be easily converted into a four-passenger plane. The plane can take off from a 2,500-ft. runway, fly at a top speed of 400 m.p.h., yet land at the comparatively low speed of 80 m.p.h. When Cessna gets into peak production of the plane, it expects to be turning them out for the Air Force at $100,000 or less, a price not out of line with present...