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General Dynamics Corporation in Fort Worth announces it is producing 12 new, high-altitude weather reconnaissance planes for the Air Force. The company says it is making the new planes from old B-57 bombers. Vee Dolson, special projects programs director, says the new plane is called the RB-57F and is the latest version evolved from the original design of the British Canberra bomber.
REAL PLANE
The wing of the new plane measures 122 feet, almost twice the length of the old B-57. In portions of the new wing, General Dynamics has used honeycomb sandwich panels of the same type used in the B-58. This gives the wing more strength for less weight. The plane will be used by a 0 weather reconnaissance squadron in New Mexico. One model already has been delivered to the Air Force. The plane is capable of flight at extremely high altitudes and is equipped
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about the production of 12 new high altitude weather renaissance planes for the Air Force.
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