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...secretive an outfit would stand up and accept an award for running an airline under "extremely sensitive political conditions"? Yet there was George Doole Jr., Air America's managing director, smiling like a Rotarian and receiving a citation for the line's achievements from Washington's Aero Club at a luncheon in the capital last week. After the luncheon, Doole, a former Pan American Airways pilot, shrugged off newsmen's questions about his company's activities. "One wouldn't know," he said, if any particular contract was actually for the CIA. "If that were...
...voluntary training, the Harvard Regiment was organized. The Regiment, which attracted nation-wide attention, gave its 1200 student members training in military tactics, taught them how to use rifles and expected them to attend one lecture a week in military science. In March, 1916, 52 students organized an aero corps to train Harvard men as aviators to fight with the United States Army in case...
...declared flatly: "Aerospace is no longer a growing market." Today the Little expert who presided over that report readily admits: "The Viet Cong made a liar out of me." This is true-for the moment. Without question, the U.S. military buildup in Viet Nam gave new life to the aero space companies. But the industry, having learned its lesson the hard way in hard times, has also entered a new era of diversification and innovation, of producing and planning for peace...
Research has led, too, to the development of special transportation equipment to move rockets and other hard ware over long distances. To transport stages of the huge Saturn rocket, California's Aero Spacelines designed a whale-shaped turboprop plane called "the Super Guppy"; its 22½-ton capacity can accommodate huge computers, oil-well rigs and helicopters. Another major growth area is space-age sealants: G.E. is selling sealants, developed for the seams of spacecraft, for use in caulking bathroom tiles; General Motors is sealing windshields and rear windows with a product made by Thiokol from solid rocket fuel...
...another of transportation-safety devices becoming standard equipment on American cars, a Soviet attempt to emulate capitalist mass production of autos, the huge freighters of the future, and a set of far-out projects reported on in The Magnificent Men in Their Whooshing Machines. These include monorails, hovercraft, aero-trains, and just about every other form of transport save the flying carpet and the broomstick-some of which are superspeed realities, others still in blueprint...