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Despite the sorry sales record, the planemakers are gamely pushing ahead. Besides Lockheed, corporate jets are being built by North American, Aero Commander and Lear. Britain's entry is the De Havilland DH-125. France's Dassault plans to introduce its twin-jet Mystère 20 in the spring; Hamburger Flugzeugbau is making a six-passenger plane; and Italy's Piaggio, maker of the famed Vespa motor scooter, has teamed up with Douglas Aircraft to build the PD-808, known as the "Vespa Jet...
Aside from Boeing, the only U.S. planemaker with a new airliner even faintly on the horizon is Douglas, which would like to build a shortrange, twin-jet DC-9. Douglas has not yet broken even on its long-range DC-8 jet, so far has not a single order for the DC-9, and is not at all sure that it will be able to go ahead with the plane. Two local-service U.S. airlines to which Douglas had hoped to sell DC-9s recently decided instead to buy British Aircraft Corp.'s new One-Eleven, the only short...
...western end of the island (see map above, and pictures on following eight pages). Under construction were a half-dozen bases for 2,500-mile missiles, which could smash U.S. cities from coast to coast. In addition, the films showed that the Russians had moved in at least 25 twin-jet Ilyushin-28 bombers that could carry nuclear bombs...
...takeoff supersonic bomber, in conjunction with Republic Aviation, which two years ago acquired one-third of Fokker's stock. But Fokker's chief hope for the future lies in building a jet successor to the F27. Already in wind-tunnel tests are models of the short-haul twin-jet F-28, which would cruise at 500 m.p.h. and carry 44 to 60 passengers. To appeal to underdeveloped countries where flying is booming, Fokker has designed the plane to be cheap, rugged, and simple to operate. "The underdeveloped countries will hurdle directly from DC-35 to jets," predicts...
...death warning to Italy's top industrialist, Enrico Mattei, because they suspected that he had made a deal with the rebel Moslem F.L.N. to exploit Saharan oil once France pulls out of Algeria. Last week, at Rome's Urbe airport, mechanics warmed up Mattei's sleek, twin-jet executive plane to carry him on a flight to Morocco to dedicate a new oil refinery at Mohammedia, where the top leadership of the F.L.N. was meeting. Hearing a peculiar noise in one of the French-built jet engines, the mechanics found that a heavy, twisted screwdriver had been...