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Showing off the quality of its fast-building force of Century-series jet planes and especially the capabilities of its new KC-135 jet air-to-air refueling tankers, the U.S. Air Force brought down a whole set of "high-speed flight records. Blasting off a runway at Ontario International Airport near Los Angeles one morning last week, four McDonnell RF-101 jets headed for New York. Coursing at 40.000 to 50,000 ft. over Albuquerque, Oklahoma City. St. Louis and Pittsburgh, the pilots of the twin-jet Voodoos dropped down only to 35,000 ft. for four or five...
...only two years ago. Yet next year, through an ingenious system of shifting and resting planes and crews, SAC intends to have two-thirds of its planes on a constant 15-minute alert. Meanwhile, the vanguard of General O. P. ("Opie") Weyland's Tactical Air Command lighter B66 twin-jet bombers, 6-458 and F-100D supersonic fighter-bombers meets a five-minute deadline...
Three miles up in the bright blue Nevada sky, a slim rocket rigged to the underside of an F-89H twin-jet Scorpion came to fiery life, thrust loose from the speeding (around 600 m.p.h.) plane and streaked forward, far faster than sound. The F-89H banked sharply to the left to escape the coming blast. Four seconds later, a fireball flashed in the sky. It glowed for an instant like a newborn sun, then faded into a rosy, doughnut-shaped cloud...
HOWARD HUGHES plans to manufacture French twin-jet Caravelles for T.W.A. at his Hughes Aircraft Co. plant in Culver City, Calif. He will also buy 15 British-built Vickers Viscount four-engined turboprops for T.W.A...
RUSSIAN JETLINER, the Tupolev TU-104, is operating more punctually and comfortably than Western airmen expected with world's only commercial pure-jet service. The 70-passenger, twin-jet plane is now fully pressurized, carries three stewardesses who serve meals. Every day it makes 1,039-mile Prague-Moscow flight in 2% hours...