Word: supertransports
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...cost of $17.2 billion, but characteristically wanted to design a plane that could both fly between continents and hop from one battlefield to another, and that could carry heavy tanks and artillery yet land on short, rough runways. In May, the Senate Armed Services Committee, fearing that such a supertransport would take forever to build, all but cut off funds for development. The Air Force is now talking of building an unspecified number of new C-5A Galaxys (it has 77 now). But these planes can land only on long runways, which might be unavailable to the R.D.F...
...race for the supertransport market is a contest between thoroughbreds. Boeing has already entered its 114-passenger Stratocruiser, foaled in the same stable as the speedy B29. Consolidated Vultee is betting on the 400-passenger transport version of its XB-36 (stablemate of purse-winners like the Liberator, Catalina). In Burbank, Calif, this week the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. led its entry out of the paddock...
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