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...aerospace industry, where total employment has been static at about 968,000 for the past three years. Nearly 30% of the Air Force spending on the YF-16 would flow to Fort Worth; another large slice would go to the plants in Connecticut and Florida where Pratt & Whitney will build the YF-16s' $1.5 million jet engines. General Dynamics last year overtook Lockheed as the U.S.'s largest defense contractor (total 1974 sales: about $2 billion), but the order comes at a time when the company needs a long-term contract to pick up the slack caused...
...hours of testing, the YF-16 prototypes proved to be more agile at the Mach 2 speeds at which the planes were designed to fly. But General Dynamics also showed a shrewd appreciation of Pentagon pride and politics. To power the YF-16, the company chose the same Pratt & Whitney turbofan engines used in the Air Force's costly ($12 million) but cherished new McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle long-range fighter. The General Dynamics fighter thus meshes neatly with the concept now gaining popularity in the Pentagon of a "HiLo Mix" in weapons systems. In essence...