The U.S. Air Force has never let newsmen print complete details of its fastest operational fighter, the F-100. The plane, said Air Force security officers, is secret. But last week, with no official help from the Air Force, unofficial specifications of the F-100 were available in print all over the world. The source: Aireview, Japan's largest aviation monthly (circ. 20,000), which printed classified details of the F-100, including a detailed diagram. In Washington Air Force security people launched an investigation to find out how this breach of security occurred, said that any U.S. publication that reprinted the Japanese sketch would be...
The Press: How to Make a Plane
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