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SUiM .and charges.VVVI M WKIM I flI Vyear.LaJuntaLamarA *6217rdenHuge Croft Acts Like Fighfrer PloneJohtiibutUse B47ToPitchBombsCoJaschcfinatonenyv EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. Ground Command at Egiin this rection. The bomb travels through[eredl*^—The Air Force announced to- afternoon. a high arc and falls on a target a‘Urdnd a dav the Boeing B47 Stratojet has „.Jhe Air Force .saiduin th,e Pf*l great distance from the point of! Jlt;‘‘ this maneuver has been limited ■release.feredjsuccessfully accomplished t h e|to fighter aircraft which weigh _one*eighth to one-quarter as Piie maneuver e n a !) 1 e slivery of an atomic bomb. much as the stratojet.fiel(the♦ tbomber to be a considerable dis-persi The announcement said this was., the a “revolutionary addition to stra-tance away when the bomb detfrorChiglIn th« tots bombing maneuver onates. Under orthodox bombingi a $ ft ofltegic bomber tactics” and “aithe aircraft enters the bombing tactics, the plane would be almost'of 1 154. complete departure from earlier run at low altitude to avoid radar directly above the point of det- tripsideroxi-then was i caremployment of this tactic.”detection and then pulls into a onation.repThe Air Force said the first pub- sharp climb.“The toss bombing capability of I corlie demonstration by the six-jcti The bomb is released while the the B47 halt;; given the U. S. Air medium bomber will be madelcraft is climbing and the plane Fmre a high degree of versatilityduring an aerial firepower demon-rolls out on top of a half loop and stratum by the Air Provingjspeed* away in the opposite di-SLinin the employment of this six-jet antbomber,” the announcement said.'hig
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Garden City Telegram
Garden City, Kansas, US
Mon, May 06, 1957
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