Word: thunderstreaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American F-100C Super-sabre jets, six U.S. Air Force pilots raced 2,325 miles from Victorville, Calif, to Philadelphia in the annual Bendix Trophy race. Winner: Colonel Carlos M. Talbott. Average speed: 610.7 m.p.h., well under the 652.5 m.p.h. coast-to-coast record set by an F-84F Thunderstreak jet last March...
...Dayton, just 3 hr. 1 min. 56 sec. after he left Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Captain Edward W. Kenny, U.S.A.F., eased his swept-wing Republic Thunderstreak (F-84F) to a landing and won the 17th Bendix Trophy Race. Kenny, who broke his back in a World War II landing, screamed over the 1,900-mile course at a record-breaking average speed of 616.208 m.p.h. Previous record: 603.547, set last year by Major William T. Whisner Jr. in an F-86 Sabre...
...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...
...November, said Gilpatric, aircraft deliveries to the Air Force reached 666, highest monthly mark since World War II. Though encouraging, the figure was still about 100 behind the stretched-out schedule set earlier this year. Gilpatric admitted production difficulties on the Northrop F89 Scorpion and the Republic F-84F Thunderstreak...
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...