Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having delivered more than 200 P104 Starfighters to the Luftwaffe, Lockheed saw its program coming to an end in Germany, and was anxious to sell the Germans something else-its C-130 Hercules transport, one model of which the company had specially revamped to fit certain German requirements. All that Lockheed had to do was persuade Bonn to drop a planned Franco-German project to build the Transall turboprop transport. But the Germans could not drop Transall-for Transport Alliance-without affronting the French, who have already ordered 50 planes. Germany's renascent airframe industry, also, needs the work...
...biggest, fastest troop lift ever attempted. For three days and three nights, the endless whine of jet engines and the thunder of a thousand propellers pierced the air at a dozen U.S. airbases from Texas to Virginia as 206 Military Air Transport Service planes hauled 15,278 soldiers to bases in Germany. Normally it would take six weeks to transport a full division overseas, even longer to get it into combat. Big Lift was designed to move a full armored division from the U.S. to Europe in 72 hours, equip it with heavy hardware "prepositioned" at depots near the front...
Others are being removed from the supply line to Germany as new computerized inventory systems and more efficient transport techniques are installed. Dozens of depots in France are being closed down or curtailed, and most of the equipment...
...becoming clear that Europe, whether she wishes to or not, must count more and more on herself. And would it not be better for her to be able to defend herself not with human chests but also with nuclear weapons? 'Big Lift' is perhaps a gigantic transport operation. But it is above all a little 'Operation Truth...
...passage, the technical task of getting the U.S. supersonic program off the ground will fall to Halaby's hard-nosed deputy, Gordon Bain, 54, a former vice president of Slick and Northwest airlines. Under Bain, the FAA will select an airframe company and enginemaker to build a supersonic transport, then oversee the project until the planes are certified as airworthy and delivered to the airlines...