Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Regular Army commission as a second lieutenant, Schriever headed like a self-guided missile into the heart of the growing field of aviation research and development. On the basis of his flying experience and his engineering background, he got a coveted job as test pilot at Ohio's Wright Field; there he flew anything that came along, frequently five or six new and unproven planes a day, all the way up to the B-17 which was then in modest production. He moved on to Wright Field's Air Corps Engineering School (mornings devoted to intricate work...
...Wright Briggs, Jr. '31 will conduct the Band performance at Symphony Hall. The program includes Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture...
...tense third round last week, Patty Berg dropped temporarily to third, two strokes behind 19-year-old Amateur Anne Quast, one stroke back of Mickey Wright. But on the final round the old pro stuck a shamrock in her hat and hit men's par on every hole except three. On those she shot birdies. She finished with a flashy 69. Her 72-hole total of 296 made her Titleholders champ, three strokes in front of faltering Anne Quast. It pushed her 1957 winnings to $3,863, highest of the lady pros...
...engine (about 15,000-lb. thrust) for Convair's supersonic B58 bomber and Lockheed's F-104A Starfighter. Yet the four-jet B58 Hustler is far from quantity production, and the F104 program may be slowed down (TIME, Feb. 25). Curtiss-Wright is little better off. The company has big commercial orders for its 3,700-h.p. Wright Turbo Compound piston engine, but was slow to push into jets, has only one big seller in the relatively low-powered (about 7,000-lb. thrust) J65 engine for subsonic Navy and Air Force fighters and Grumman's lightweight...
Rockets & Light Planes. To compound the troubles, few U.S. enginemakers have been quick to jump into the new field of rocket power. Though both Curtiss-Wright and General Electric, now building the first-stage rocket motor for the Vanguard satellite project, are hurrying to catch up, most of the contracts so far have gone to new companies in the field. North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division currently has 10,250 employees and contracts to power a fleet of big missiles, from the intercontinental Atlas to the Army's 200-mile Redstone. A second newcomer. California's Aerojet...