Word: stratojet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When trim, black-browed Major General Walter Campbell Sweeney Jr., 44, led his flight of three B-47 Stratojet bombers up from Southern California's March Air Force Base one day last week, many airmen on the field scarcely bothered to watch. But in "Cam" Sweeney's 15th Air Force headquarters, top officers were already settling themselves down to a long watch over his radio traffic...
More than the usual number of time-consuming bugs have cropped up in airplane production. At one factory making jet fighters, about 100 planes are ready for delivery as soon as faulty compressor pumps can be replaced. The Boeing B-47 stratojet bomber, plagued with bugs since the first day it flew, is now having trouble with fuel tanks and landing gear...
...Hawaii's Hickam Air Force Base, a big, swept-wing B-47 whistled out of the east and flashed in to land. As fast as the Canberra and much bigger (it weighs more than a B29, can carry ten tons of bombs), the Stratojet is still highly secret. The Air Force cautiously admitted that it had made the 2,400-mile flight from the U.S. mainland in something under six hours-an average speed of over 400 m.p.h...