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...proved that they could build conventional planes; now with German help they proved that they could build first-rate jets. In 1947, the first really topnotch Russian fighter, the jet MIG-15, appeared. It had a high rooster-like tail, a barrel-like fuselage, and an ancient radio antenna jutting out into the slip stream. But it had swept-back wings, quick visual proof that the Russians and their German experts had been delving deep into transsonic research. It was light and maneuverable and powered by the best existing jet engine, the Rolls-Royce Nene, which the British government sold...
...explosive charge goes off and cuts the automatic parachute loose (to keep the Grasshopper from being dragged by the wind). Then a pre-set timer sets off another explosion. Out pop three metal legs, and the Grasshopper rises to a standing position. Another explosion shoots out a thin, fishpole antenna and turns on the batteries. From then on, the Grasshopper is ready for duty...
Rear View. William B. MacDonald Jr. of Chicago's Mid-States Corp. (house trailers) had a 12½-in. TV set built into his 1951 Cadillac sedan.* The viewing tube is fixed at a 45-degree angle on the rear floor of the car, the antenna protrudes from the trunk. Cost of the set plus installation...
...Kill. Inside the plane's plastic nose (transparent to radar) is a metal "dish" antenna that spins rapidly on its axis and at the same time swings with an odd back & forth motion. In doing this mannered dance, it probes the air ahead with far-reaching radar pulses. If the air is empty, a single line of light glows on the radar-man's scope. When a pulse bounces back from the enemy, a jog or "blip" appears in the line...
...provided an unnerving experience for Ernest Kolesiak of South Bend, Ind. Kolesiak was on the roof tightening guy wires on his antenna when it toppled across a 27,000-volt power line. Immediately, great balls of fire bounced up & down on the roof with thunderous explosions, the plumbing threw off sparks, and pipes melted around the kitchen sink. Mrs. Kolesiak, peeling potatoes, found her spectacles flecked with molten metal, the television set burned out and one of the knobs blew off, the telephone went dead, a glove lying in the yard burst into flames, and the house was scorched...