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Before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, the Air Force last week proudly displayed a photograph of a golf course taken from an altitude of 45,000 ft. (roughly 8½ miles) with one of its newest and most secret aerial cameras. Visible to the naked eye: two golfers standing on a green. Visible under a magnifying glass: a golf ball on the green...
Bombs to Tanks. During World War I, when Ray Smith took on contracts to build aerial bombs, his engineers worked out a new method of arc welding to seal the bombs. Later, he used the welding process to make high-pressure oil tanks, which until then had been tediously assembled by hand in riveted sections. Soon, Smith had 90% of the oil-tank business...
...ominous as the buildup of enemy ground forces was an aggressive show of Red air strength. In the biggest aerial combats of the war, Communist planes struck tellingly at U.N. raids on Red supply lines (see The Air War). Would enemy aircraft next be thrown against U.N. ground forces, or strike at U.N. airfields? The possibility plainly worried U.N. commanders. The dismissal of Douglas MacArthur had not dismissed the ugly fact that across the Yalu the air-power nests were safe from punishment...
With his mouth full of gasoline for an aerial spray effect, Flamo misjudged and blew himself to the hospital. Mannix applied for the job and got it. Step Right Up! is his amusing if sketchy story of what happened to him in the next few seasons with various carnival shows...
...camera is intended for "aerial reconnaissance": quick dashes across hostile territory. It has not been flight-tested yet, but Air Force authorities believe that its pictures, taken from the substratosphere, will show such fine details as individual machine-gun emplacements and tell what sort of vehicles the enemy has on his roads...