January 1956

In Washington, D. C. last month, Richard Travis Whitcomb, a thirty-four-year-old National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics engineer, was awarded the Collier Trophy, one of the nation’s highest honors for achievement in the field of aviation. Whitcomb was also honored by...

I believe the threat of global war and our need to prevent it has not seriously diminished during the last year. This means that we are dependent upon our Air Force’s being unquestionably superior to any other in the world....