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...twin-jet Scorpion interceptor-shiningly fresh from Northrop Aircraft Co.'s assembly line-looked like a purposeful insect as it edged out on to the runway at the Ontario (Calif.) International Airport. Few heads turned as it took off at exactly noon one day last week -it was being flown on a routine production test, as a preliminary to being delivered to the Air Force. But two minutes later the airport tower man strained to watch it; the voice of the Scorpion's pilot had just spoken eight chilling words from a loudspeaker at the field...
...through the night across the North Atlantic, touched down at Gander, Newfoundland for fuel, then skipped south to Bermuda, Britain's oldest colony. Landing at U.S.-leased Kindley Air Force Base, the Duke, technically the airport commander's landlord, graciously thanked him for the courtesy of his runway. That afternoon, during a round of nine parishes and two towns, the Duke lost his equerries at a garden party, asked in mock dismay: "Where the devil's my escort?" Next day, the royal plane set down at Jamaica's tourist-fringed Montego Bay. The Queen was presented...
After the long drought, the rain had a great impact on both man and the creatures of field and stream. During a storm in Oklahoma City, a flock of wild ducks mistook a wet runway at Municipal Airport for a body of water, and some of them cracked up on landing. In the drought-disaster areas, everyone knew that one rain does not break a drought, but farmers and townsfolk alike drew a deep, fresh breath and hoped. The rain was too late to help this year's crops, but in many areas it settled the blowing topsoil, helped...
...plane contract, which has been up in the air since the Kaiser Motor Co. lost it. finally came down to earth last week on a broad Maryland runway. Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. of Hagerstown, Md. won the contract for 165 twin-engined Chase C-123 Avitruc transports by underbidding four other companies. Its bid, 10% under its nearest competitor, was close to the original Air Force estimate of $276 million for the big, potbellied assault transports...
...forces on their way into Laos. Under the broiling sun the colonel in command, walking disconsolately along the airstrip, looked up as he heard the sound of air craft engines. Within seconds a C-47 airplane, its wings and tail riddled by Red ack-ack fire, rolled onto the runway. The pilot braked it to a stop and his passenger, a prim, neat little man wearing the four stars of a full general, climbed out. The astonished colonel clicked to attention, saluted, and said: "I was not expecting you, general...