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...annual air show, inviting some 6,000 foreign visitors, military and civilian, to admire and buy the flying products of British airplane makers. The visitors gyrated in machines that simulate the violent motions of a jet fighter in flight; they were shot in an ejector seat up a vertical runway; they drank champagne in booths maintained by sales-conscious manufacturers...
...Riverside, Calif. Suddenly the plane came alive: her six turbojets throbbed, then hummed,then split the air with a banshee scream. In their tandem seats under a Plexiglas canopy, Major Horace ("Beau") Traylor Jr., the aircraft commander, and Major Martin Speiser, the pilot, made ready to taxi to the runway. Their green coveralls were soaked through with sweat; it was more than 140° in their compartment. They faced a nerve-shredding test of their skill and endurance: the City of Merced was about to take off in her final flight in the U.S. Strategic Air Command's annual...
Kadena Air Base, with its 9,000-ft. runway, has become the Air Force's most important Far Eastern home. Naha Air Base is nearly as big. The Army, Defense Secretary Wilson declared recently, expects to make Okinawa its major troop base, capable of staging more troops than it handled (182,000) in World War II. And when the rest of the 3rd Marine Division, now scattered from Japan to Hawaii, makes its scheduled move to Okinawa when housing is ready, Okinawa will be headquarters for the largest Marine striking force in the Orient...
...supersonic propellers, the long-range XF-84H is the first single-engine turboprop fighter to use an afterburner to provide jetlike climbing power. For a landing, its three-bladed, more than 3,000 r.p.m. propeller simply goes into reverse and enables the new turboprop to use far less runway than...
...last week President Eisenhower stepped into a small, twin-engined, blue-and-white airplane at National Airport and took off. Thirty-two minutes later, the trim little craft sat down on the 2,200-ft. grass runway at Gettysburg, Pa. After a pleasant tour of his farm, the President flew home in just 22 minutes...