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After a six-year eclipse, Flygirl Jacqueline Cochran, fiftyish, reclaimed the title of the world's fastest female. Piloting a T-38 twin-jet trainer at 842.6 m.p.h. over a speedway at California's Edwards Air Force Base, the high-level cosmetician (Jacqueline Cochran, Inc.) surpassed the 1955 record of France's Jacqueline Auriol by 127 m.p.h...
...Russians also unveiled a twin-jet flying boat (the U.S. experimented with one, wrote it off as of little strategic value), a new three-tailed helicopter with jet-driven blades, and a huge conventional helicopter carrying a small house slung beneath it and capable of carrying 180 infantrymen (biggest U.S. model, due next year, will lift only 100). Though some of the planes on display were already known to Western aviation experts, and others were simply old models with new touches, the flypast made bunk out of Nikita's boast that Russia had consigned its warplanes to junk. Judging...
United has CAB permission to drop eight cities on Capital's unprofitable short-haul runs. The new giant will serve 117 cities, spread across the U.S. in a rough H. To handle this 18,000-mile network in streamlined fashion. United al ready has on order 20 twin-jet French Caravelles, 40 Boeing 727s, six more DC-8s and eleven more Boeing 720s. These, plus Capital's Viscounts, will give United the biggest jet fleet in the nation...
...well-equipped army, led by 400 Belgian officers, struck into northern Katanga, easily pushed back pro-Lumumba Baluba tribesmen as far as the Lualaba River. Tshombe, wearing a Homburg, helicoptered to the front to congratulate his men. At Elisabethville airport, a Boeing Stratocruiser arrived, carrying in its hold three twin-jet Fouga Magisters, advertised as trainers but equipped for firing rockets...
...NAVY ATTACK PLANE, the Intruder, will be built by Grumman Aircraft under a $70,100,000 contract. The twin-jet plane is first U S ship to tilt tail pipes downward so jet blast can help lift it off carrier...