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...North American's Board Chairman Dutch Kindelberger, "is a method of connecting one source of trouble with another"). The K-1 electronic bombing system used in the Boeing B-47 and Convair B-36 costs more than a B-17 of World War II. "In aircraft procurement," says Vandenberg, "tomorrow for an air force means two years from today...
...assembly line tooled up: e.g., the first two troop-carrying C-ngs to roll out of the new Kaiser-Frazer plant cost $1,000,000 apiece, as compared with the $314,000 price at the parent Fairchild plant. Said a production engineer last week, expansively waving aside Vandenberg's estimate of two years: "If they say 'go' today, a rate of 100,000 planes a year would be possible in ten months...
...Force has just as broad a base of major command talent. General Curtis LeMay, who built SAC into a powerful ready-force, has been moved to Washington as Vandenberg's vice chief of staff (TIME, March 10). Curt LeMay switched jobs with General Nathan Twining, who helped build up SAC's World War II predecessor, the B-29 Twentieth Air Force in the Pacific. Vandenberg is well anchored in Europe with Lieut. General Lauris Norstad, Eisenhower's air chief at SHAPE and commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; and in the Pacific with Lieut. General Otto...
...Force needs only the consent of Congress and the Administration to set in motion its well-trained cadres, the plane designs, the waiting aircraft plants. "Wherever we are, our frontier is above our heads," General Vandenberg once told his fellow airmen at Maxwell Field, "and it extends above and over any aggressor who dares break the peace. There are no barriers between us and any enemy, and the hours that separate us are few. Our job is to be ready to meet an aggressor, at any time, in any strength...
Principal take-offs and landings in General Vandenberg's flight to the top of the U.S. Air Force...