Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LAURENCE RYAN...
...executive vice president of the American Newspaper Guild, now an outdoor salesman, invoked the Fifth Amendment's protection. Monroe Stern, onetime Hearst writer and president of the New York Guild local, who became pressagent for the Yugoslav embassy, told the committee he never was a party member. Jack Ryan, a commissar of the New York Guild local until 1947, said he was now a self-employed "horticultural researcher"; he, like others, invoked the Fifth Amendment...
This summer the Air Force will evaluate a new jet target, the Ryan Firebee, which it hopes will help solve the problem. The Firebee is an ugly little pilotless airplane, built like a potbellied bug with swept-back wings. It is only 17 ft. 3 in. long, and its wing span is 11 ft. 2 in. But its belly contains a real jet engine with 1,000 Ibs. of thrust, which gives it maximum speed at sea level of 610 m.p.h. At 40,000 ft. it can fly for an hour and 20 minutes at 575 m.p.h. This...
Besides its primary use as a target for fighters, the Firebee has other potential uses, according to the Ryan Aeronautical Co. It would provide an excellent target for antiaircraft guided missiles, which have been trying their electronic tricks on slow-flying drones or even floating parachutes. Such tests are no tests, says Ryan. A missile should not be trusted for defense against enemy bombers unless it can hunt down and destroy an airplane at least as fast as the Firebee. No U.S. missile, says Ryan, has proved this...
Designed to be a fast and versatile target, the Firebee has developed into something like a guided missile. Ryan offers it as a cheap, fast bomb carrier. It can be dropped from a bomber, launched by a catapult or tossed into the. air by an auxiliary rocket. Instead of carrying a bomb, it can take a fast tour over enemy lines, return to its starting point and land by parachute. Strips of film from an automatic camera will tell an Army commander in a few minutes what the enemy...