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...European refineries had no more need for sausage barges. Hawthorne began to think of using them with other loads in remote places. Dracones are cheap (from $12,600 to $63,000), can be towed easily by small boats, and do not need fancy dock facilities. And once its cargo has been drained off, a Dracone can either be inflated with air for the return tow or rolled up and carried home on the deck of the towing vessel...
...earth often becomes a full-dress Navy spectacular. Destroyers, carriers, airplanes and helicopters scout hundreds of miles of ocean to pull an encapsuled astronaut out of the drink or save a set of valuable instruments. But such shows are so costly that they are attempted only when the cargo that comes back from space is especially important. Most of the Cape's missiles and satellites deliver all their information by radio and are abandoned when they...
...aluminum mast unstepped, her Honduras mahogany hull swathed in protective padding, Australia's sleek, 12-meter challenger for the America's Cup was ready last week for her voyage to the U.S.-as deck cargo aboard the freighter City of Sydney. For two months, Gretel (pronounced Great-ul) had been testing herself against her American trial horse, Vim, and stories about her speed were flying like loose sheets in a gale. Though the Aussies carefully tut-tutted the report, one story had it that Gretel had beaten Vim by 16 minutes over a 16-mile course-a fantastic...
...working order. Discouraged, one National Aeronautics and Space Administration official lamented: "All we've got is an idiot with a radio signal." But idiot or not, for the first time, the U.S. had actually hit the moon with a missile-a missile that destroyed itself and its cargo in a 6,000-m.p.h. impact...
...same time. Lockheed's manned birds were flying high. The Navy's lumbering antisubmarine P2r plane, the Hercules cargo transport and the F-104 all-weather jet interceptor brought 1961 sales of another $459 million. And Lockheed, the biggest beneficiary of the Pentagon's new emphasis on brush-fire mobility and military airlift, last March won a contract to build the big military transport plane of the future, the 158-ton. 550-m.p.h...