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Died. Major Henry Shaw Beukema, 29, son-in-law (since 1944) of General of the Army Omar N. Bradley, son of West Point's Geopolitician Colonel Herman Beukema; when his Thunderjet fighter crashed into the York River, near Williamsburg...
...fourth of its present capacity is being used. Only 1,000 planes a year of all types are being manufactured. But the future looks brighter. NATO has ordered $86 million worth of Mystère IV interceptors; the U.S. has placed $30 million in offshore contracts for Republic Thunderjet and Thunderstreak air frames, and the British are trying out the Breguet doubledecker 117-passenger transports...
...years ago, President Conant awoke to find a steamroller on his lawn, kindness of M.I.T. Recently, the children of Lt. Col. Arthur Small, ROTC director, California Institute of Technology, discovered on the lawn of their Pasadena home a life-size, F-84 Thunderjet, minus its wings. The police and F.B.I. finally traced the gift back to ten California Tech students. The Techmen admitted stealing it from a campus exhibition...
Republic made other news last week. It delivered to the Air Force its first production model of the F-84F Thunderstreak, a swept-wing version of the F-84 Thunderjet, the top fighter-bomber in Korea and a mainstay of the NATO air force. Capable of 700 m.p.h., the new Thunderstreak is powered by Britain's Sapphire engine, made in the U.S. by Curtiss-Wright (TIME, Oct. 16, 1950). It can carry a small atom bomb, has a range of more than 2,000 miles (considerably more than the current Thunder jet), and can be refueled in flight...
...from carriers, including Britain's Ocean. They dropped 700 tons of bombs, thousands of gallons of napalm, left their targets blasted and burning. More than 100 U.S. Sabre and Australian Meteor jets flew top cover, drove off the few MIGs that tried to interfere. Only one plane-a Thunderjet-was lost to Pyongyang's formidable flak...