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SPACESHIP PROPULSION will be investigated by North American Aviation Inc. under new $50,000-a-year Air Force contract. Company's Rocketdyne Division will study methods of generating ions, i.e., electrically charged atoms, to provide thrust. Power for ion generator would probably come from small nuclear reactor or solar power plant...
...according to some initial American reactions. The White Paper announcing the change detected "no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against the consequences of an attack with nuclear weapons." Macmillan has been willing to agree with the American goal of a party for every thrust to the extent of backing "defense research" against bombs and missiles, but no one seems too optimistic about its success...
Gulps & Gambles. Exner had his own ideas of what an automobile should look like. "What I wanted," he says, "was a lean, taut look rather than a static look-a look of thrust. People are used to the dart or wedge-shaped theme. They see it on jet planes, racing cars, big racing boats. I thought people would like them, particularly young people, and the young people would sell their parents." Seeing the designs for the first time one chilly day in November 1954, Chrysler's brass gulped, fretted that they might be too strong for the U.S. public...
...fighting a losing competitive battle. General Electric, which claims to have delivered more jet engines than any other manufacturer, lost its bread-and-butter J47 engine contract with the end of B-47 medium-bomber production. To replace it, G.E. has a new J79 engine (about 15,000-lb. thrust) for Convair's supersonic B58 bomber and Lockheed's F-104A Starfighter. Yet the four-jet B58 Hustler is far from quantity production, and the F104 program may be slowed down (TIME, Feb. 25). Curtiss-Wright is little better off. The company has big commercial orders...
...aircraft, most of them small business or personal planes. Enginemaker Lycoming, with half a dozen small piston engines already in production, is busy developing a light turboprop engine for greater speed and altitude. Continental has moved into baby jets, looks forward to a big market for its 920-lb.-thrust jet as the power plant for Cessna's T-37 Air Force jet trainer and will be ready when the potentially big civilian-small-jet market opens...