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...Despite all the progress in long-range radio aids to aerial navigation, a good navigator likes best to find where in the world he is by celestial star sights, a process that involves only himself, his sextant and the heavenly bodies. Last week New York's Kollsman Instrument Corp. gave the ancient science of celestial navigation a modern twist, announced a new sextant that, once preset, will seek out the proper star or planet, average a series of sights, and flash its readings by remote control to the navigator. With a three-star fix, he can pinpoint the position...
...Korea, where peace is precarious and the Communists openly defy the truce by moving in forbidden troops and supplies, the U.S. likes to keep an aerial watch on the enemy. The Chinese Communists do not like to have intruders flying over the northern half of the Yellow Sea, in the vicinity of Port Arthur and Dairen or the big MIG base at Antung, but the U.S. insists on its right to fly over international waters...
...Marmora iron deposit first appeared as some interesting squiggles on a geomagnetic map drawn after a 1949 aerial survey sponsored by the federal and provincial governments. Bethlehem quietly bought up options, then began probing the subsurface rocks with diamond drills...
...military men, the helicopter is fast becoming as useful and ubiquitous as the jeep. In Washington last week, the Defense Department made plans for a heliport beside the Pentagon to permit aerial taxi service between bases in the area; overall, some 6,000 military helicopters do every job from air-sea rescue to artillery spotting. But so far, civilians have gained few of the advantages of helicopters. To date, only 300 commercial helicopters operate around the U.S., even though the potential market is enormous. Predicted CAAdministrator Frederick B. Lee: "In ten years there will be 286 daily helicopter movements between...
Suitcase Size. During the Yucca Flat tests, one baby bomb was parachuted out of a B-36, exploded at 30,000 ft. amid a cluster of other parachutes carrying little metal canisters. Probable purpose: to estimate the effect of an atomic aerial explosion, such as an antiaircraft shell or missile, on the metal parts of bombers. Another blast was exploded underground (TIME, April 4), gouging a mammoth crater and tossing a column of dirt hundreds of feet into the sky. Reportedly, the bomb was no bigger than a suitcase...