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...delta- and swept-wing jets like the Javelin and the Hunter. But in a supplementary report which unconvincingly boasted that "this country has an effective air defense," the Defense Ministry as good as admitted that most of the R.A.F.'s fighters are too slow to catch Soviet twin-jet bombers...
...flies 130-m.p.h. spotters, wants a small plane fast enough to escape the radio-active blast from its long-range atomic cannon, and has asked several planemakers if they could handle a production order for such a plane. Leading candidate: Cessna's new, 400-m.p.h., T-37 twin-jet trainer (TIME, Aug. 9), now being produced for the Air Force...
Britain last week rolled out its first truly supersonic jet. Built by English Electric, maker of the Canberra twin-jet bomber, the new P. 1 is a stubby, delta-winged interceptor, with a double-barreled Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire power plant turning out a total of 20,000 Ibs. of thrust. All English Electric will say is that the plane can fly faster than sound in level flight, and that 20 have been ordered to short-cut the time lag between prototype and production models. At the news, most of Britain's newspapers went all out, claimed speeds...
...twin-jet T-37 trainer with side-by-side seats and 400-m.p.h. speed. Last week the Air Force, choosing from among 15 designs, gave Cessna a preliminary $5,000,000 contract for T-37s, with the possibility of more if the plane lives up to expectations...
...force (first independent air arm in Japan's history) of 40,000 men, 1,300 planes, including 525 F-86 Sabre jets (21 squadrons) and 96 B66 Douglas twin-jet light bombers (six squadrons...