Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, to gather material for the text, Montreal Correspondent Byron Riggan made the first visit of any reporter to the Mid-Canada line. Other TIME Correspondents visited DEW line sites in Alaska, interceptor bases, Nike batteries and lonely aircraft control and warning stations from Cape Cod to Southern California, and interviewed NORAD's commanders at Colorado Springs. See SCIENCE, NORAD: Defense of a Continent...
...ranging carrier planes and submarines. Operating out of 270-odd air bases in a score of countries, this thermonuclear strike force is poised all day, every day, to deliver a 360° assault (see map) against the 37,500-mile borders of the Soviet Union, each single aircraft capable of unloading on target the mighty equivalent of all the bombs dropped by all nations during World War II. Unlike the Kremlin's-headline-making experimental missiles, the U.S. thermonuclear strike force is lethal in the fighting man's sense of what is operational and what...
...Sidi Slimane's dining hall, in briefing rooms and sleeping huts, the 6-473' three-man alert crews waited, always a few minutes' jeep ride from their aircraft, always together. ("It's like being married to these guys," says one young copilot, "only worse.") As Klaxon horns blared harshly and insistently through the sun-dried air, the combat crews dropped what they were doing and piled into their jeeps. (One coveralled pilot got notice of the alert when the warning light went on over the Catholic chapel altar, where he was at prayer.) Down premarked roadways...
...White, increasingly and reluctantly tabbed as a plans-and-organization type, missed out on most of the cheers. For 21 months in 1942-44 he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations, then Chief of Staff of the Stateside Third Air Force that "staged the flights of U.S. aircraft across the North and South Atlantic to Europe. ("If we don't hit Ascension, my wife gets a pension.") In September 1944 he was assigned as deputy commander of MacArthur's Thirteenth ("Jungle") Air Force in the South Pacific, but MacArthur grounded all personnel with knowledge...
...must constantly re-evaluate and update our thinking," says White, and he does a first-rate job of re-evaluating and updating his own. In SAC's underground headquarters at Offutt AFB near Omaha, teams of officers are already hatching war plans and weapons requirements for manned aircraft and ballistic missiles for next year and each successive year up to 1961. Out of its complex of laboratories, flight-test centers and missile firing ranges, Air Research and Development Command has let R. & D. contracts to no fewer than 160 universities and 1,520 industrial companies in the Air Force...