Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...A.F.B., Dayton. And so last year, the Air Force awarded Bell a $99,000 contract for wind-tunnel tests of the ACLG. Now Bell has won a second contract for $98,700 to study possible use of its ACLG on the Air Force's C-119 "Flying Boxcar" transport...
Vietnam's long travail in war has deferred the development of the kind of leadership needed to create for its people the material advantages of developed nations. Improvements in transport, the creation and utilization of power resources, the development of an industrial capacity, and the use of mechanical and electronic technology require the education of substantial numbers of applied scientists...
...salaries are obviously being supplemented from other sources. The squeeze runs on down into the lower echelons. One high government official pulls out a document detailing the history of a pig between a Delta farm and a Saigon slaughterhouse. The farmer gets 6,800 piasters (about $57), and truck transport is another 400. But on the 50-mile journey, the pig has to pass through seven National Police checkpoints, established to guard against Viet Cong smuggling of weapons or other war supplies. Each checker exacts a little something-enough to increase the delivered price by another $12. Padding payrolls...
...magazine noted that MIG fighter jets were enjoying a sanctuary at some North Vietnamese airfields, members of Congress used the piece to bolster their argument that the fields should be attacked. They soon were. When the British government seemed on the point of withdrawing from the Anglo-French supersonic-transport program, Aviation Week warned that such a decision could reduce Britain to a "second-rate techno logical power." Many M.P.s praised the article, and it helped persuade the British to stay with the program...
Downtown Landing. Shaped like a stubby blimp with wings, the 78-ft. Breguet 941 can carry 60 people or ten tons of cargo - 51 tons more than Cana da's de Havilland Caribou, the largest operational STOL-type transport. At 270 m.p.h., it also flies faster than any helicopter and has a greater maximum range: 500 miles. Developed as a mil itary assault transport, it can land fully loaded at speeds as slow as 55 m.p.h...