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...twin-jet Scorpion interceptor-shiningly fresh from Northrop Aircraft Co.'s assembly line-looked like a purposeful insect as it edged out on to the runway at the Ontario (Calif.) International Airport. Few heads turned as it took off at exactly noon one day last week -it was being flown on a routine production test, as a preliminary to being delivered to the Air Force. But two minutes later the airport tower man strained to watch it; the voice of the Scorpion's pilot had just spoken eight chilling words from a loudspeaker at the field...
BRITAIN'S English Electric Co. Ltd., designers and manufacturers of the twin-jet Canberra bomber being built under license in the U.S. by Glenn L. Martin Co., landed its second big U.S. hydroelectric contract in a year. The company, which previously won an order for transformers for the Chief Joseph Dam in Washington, underbid four U.S. firms for two generators for the new Mc-Nary Dam on the Columbia River. The bid: $3,651,476, some $600,000 under that of the nearest U.S. competitor, General Electric...
...world's first man-carrying aircraft designed to take off under its own power and operate at sustained supersonic speeds in level flight." (Other high-speed craft carry fuel for only a few minutes of powered flight.) Built by Douglas Aircraft Co., the twin-jet X-3 is expected to set new speed and altitude records...
...addition, Martin took a $36 million beating on its ill-fated 2-0-2 transport (TIME, April 23), has taken another beating so far on its new two-motored airline plane, the 4-0-4. One of Martin's major jobs-building Britain's twin-jet Canberra bomber-has proved costly. There have been long delays trying to mesh British and American blueprints...
...Douglas' A3D (unnamed), a swift twin-jet attack bomber which can operate from carriers, drop anything from torpedoes to tactical A-bombs...