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After more bad news than most people
care to hear -- there is some good news at the Fort Worth General Dynamics plant today. The Air Force has taken what General Dynamics officials call "the first concrete step" toward buying 40 additional FO111 aircraft.
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General Dynamics will be funded (M)$35
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million dollars out of the 1970 Air Force budget for a long-lead time effort on the F-111-F tactical fighter. The F-111-F has an engine with 25% more power than earlier versions of the F-111 and has a more advanced electroconics system. Fort Worth congressman Jim Wright made the announcement of the award in Fort Worth last night when he returned from Washington. Wright said it is heartening to me, even in the face of un-warranted criticism, the Air Force fully realizes the worth and value of theF-1li. General Dynamics President Frank W. Davis said the award will have no direct effect on