This spring formation flights over Moscow of Russian intercontinental jet bomb ers startled the Air Force into a second look at the jet fighters scheduled to take over U.S. air defense in the next few years. Last week a new production sched ule for Air Force supersonic fighters was revealed:
¶ The supersonic F-100 (TIME, Oct. 26, 1953), North American's Super-Sabre jet, already in operational units, will be produced at Los Angeles and Columbus, Ohio at the same rate.
¶ The F-101, McDonnell's twinjet, supersonic Voodoo (TIME, Dec. 6), was de signed as a...
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