Word: skyhawk
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...Navy's prize aircraft were on display: Phantom interceptors. Vigilante and Skyhawk attack bombers and Crusader fighters screamed overhead, booming in salute as they cracked the sonic barrier, hurling bombs neatly and precisely between the twin wakes of Enterprise and Forrestal...
...Marines on the Beirut beaches. The Sixth Fleet's 60,000-ton supercarrier Saratoga and support carrier Wasp, with 40-ship escort, were riding offshore. Reinforcements, including the guided-missile cruiser Boston and attack carrier Essex, were steaming up from Greek waters. Sweeps of AD Skyraider and A4D Skyhawk bombers, plus F8U Crusader interceptors, were heading out over Lebanon and Jordan. Burke's follow-through: in Lebanon a second Marine battalion landed, then a third. Back across the Atlantic the carrier Antietam loaded up 1,000 more Marines, assault helicopters, jet interceptors, pulled out of Norfolk with...
...Navy, after ordering slowdowns a fortnight ago in production of its F8U-1. Crusader, A4D-2 Skyhawk and F3H-2 Demon, last week announced another. Delivery schedules on the F4D-1 Skyray fighter manufactured by Douglas Aircraft will also be lengthened. ¶ The Air Force canceled a $100 million flight-research project with Republic Aviation on Republic's XF-103 jet interceptor. Selecting its weapons, the Air Force announced a new contract with North American Aviation for a new air-to-surface missile similar to the 6-47's Rascal...
...items and decided to make longer, lower time payments. The budget ax in this case fell on the aircraft industry. The Navy announced that it will stretch out the procurement of three jet fighters-Chance Vought's supersonic F8U Crusader, McDonnell's F3H Demon, Douglas' A4D Skyhawk. United Aircraft Corp. reported that its work on a nuclear-plane engine would be "drastically reduced," or scrapped altogether. And the Defense Department announced that it will trim progress payments on unfinished aircraft from 75% of the cost to 70%, forcing plane makers to find more financing in a tight...
...counting on missile contracts for its Regulus and heavy orders for a faster, improved all-weather F8U, which it now has on the drawing boards. Douglas figures that its $2.5 billion backlog and its big business in missiles and commercial jets can easily absorb the slack of the Skyhawk stretch-out. And to help offset the stretch-out in orders for its eight-jet B-52 bomber, Boeing last week got its first production contract for its ramjet Bomarc interceptor missile. The sum: $139 million...