Aug 31 1969
From The Space Library
Washington Post Sunday supplement Potomac published profile of Dr. Richard T. Whitcomb, head of 8-Foot Tunnels Branch at LaRC. He had won 1954 Robert J. Collier Trophy for design of "coke bottle" aircraft fuselage configuration that enabled aircraft to pass through mach 1 with increased power. More recently he had devised supercritical wing, which would permit subsonic jet aircraft to approach mach 1. If adopted by commercial aircraft manufacturers, wing would cut nearly one hour from current five-hour transcontinental flights. (Potomac, 8/31/69, 1, 5-7)
DOD internal, classified memoranda suggested Government would waste money buying additional Lockheed C-5A aircraft, Washington Post article said. Central conclusion was that most efficient and least costly transportation network to support two major and one "brushfire" war "for which military wants to be prepared consists of the existing three squadrons (58) [of] C-5As plus smaller carriers like the C-141 and modern freighters." (Nossiter, W Post, 8/31/69, Al)
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