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...same, an adventurous excitement built up as the squad got ready for its one big faraway fling of the year, a game with Bowling Green State University near Toledo, Ohio. After recoiling at the cost of a four-engined plane, the school settled on a charter from Arctic-Pacific Airlines ($7,700) in a C-46, a tired, twin-engined relic of World...
...rain. Minnesota's Schjeldahl Co.'s polyester plastic balloon structures can be built in half a day, need only an ordinary building fan to keep them inflated, will last five to ten years. Quonset-shaped, the Schjel-dome will work in the arctic or the tropics, can be used for garages and greenhouses, swimming pool covers and grain warehouses, is repaired with a hot iron...
...outnumber the Soviets in known numbers of ICBMs and go a long way toward bridging any missile gap. They will open a new sea frontier along the 6,000-mile stretch of Indian Ocean where the U.S. now has no bases. They will be at home along the long Arctic coastline of Eurasia. By 1965, the Navy plans a fleet of 45 FBM submarines-30 on station at a time around the Eurasian land mass. And by 1965 Red Raborn plans to extend Polaris' range to 2,500 miles per missile...
Amid deepest secrecy, U.S. and Allied planes and ships have long prowled the air and sea approaches to the Soviet fortress. Such so-called "ferret" fights probe the Russian radar fences in the Pacific, in the Middle East and in the Arctic north. The Russians, for their part, send a weekly fight of radar-snooping planes along Japan's northeast coasts with such unfailing regularity that it is known as the "Tokyo Express." Three months ago, the Soviet trawler Vega made a much-photographed nuisance of herself oT the U.S. Atlantic Coast-taking bearings on U.S. coastal radars, barging...
...English town of Brize Norton on July 1 was destined to become a brief but acrimonious international incident. The plane was an RB-47, the reconnaissance version of the Air Force's workhorse medium jet bomber. It was scheduled to fly the routine ferret run off the Soviet Arctic coast, a triangular course (see map) around the Barents Sea plotted to keep the ferret plane at least 75 miles away from Soviet territory. At 3:03 p.m., upon reaching the appointed spot about 300 miles northeast of Norway's North Cape, the RB-47 signaled the start...