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...from a condition of weightlessness to new and perhaps even greater overloads. I also faced tremendous heating of the ship's outer surface on entering the denser layers of the atmosphere. I remembered the mishap of Cosmic Ship III, which on Dec. 1, 1960, burned up with its cargo of two dogs. The fate of Pchelka and Mushka had a bitterish taste. Would all systems work normally? Did some unforeseen peril await...
...Armed with liens on $429,000 worth of Cuban property in the U.S., Harris temporarily impounded two Cubana Airlines Bristol Britannias during 1960's hectic U.N. session forced Castro to fly home in a Soviet Ilyushin-18. Two months ago, Harris grabbed four Cuban C46 cargo planes, sold them for $36,000. Fortnight ago he seized another C46 and 13 boxcars of tobacco, released the leaf last week only when U.S. companies proved that they had already paid Castro for it. Says Harris: "Legally, I have a license to hunt. And I haven't stopped...
After the shooting war, LeMay entered the cold war, supervising the Berlin airlift and frequently piloting cargo planes himself. (He still grabs the controls of a jet whenever he can.) In 1948 he returned to the U.S. to take command of the Strategic Air Command-the force of nuclear-armed intercontinental bombers that was, and in operational terms remains, the nation's most effective deterrent against all-out atomic...
...hopes for its slow, primitive-looking contraption. The wing is extremely light; it can be folded into a small package and spread out swiftly. This makes it attractive for use as a steerable parachute or a glider. With an engine attached, the handy Flex Wing may serve for military cargo-carrying, wire-laying and other quick-transport jobs. If its nylon fabric is replaced with cloth woven of heat-resistant metal wires, the Flex Wing may be able to ease space vehicles down through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. One candidate for this treatment, say Ryan engineers, might...
Dead of Night. For the sake of secrecy, the area had been cleared of all workers, but to the consternation of the police official who hurried on board, the Soviet captain could not or would not use his ship's cranes to unload his cargo, meaning that scores of local stevedores had to be awakened and rushed down to do the job by hand. For five hours, until well after dawn, the sweating workers lugged thousands of cases of small arms and ammunition down to waiting police trucks. Finally, the heavily laden vehicles headed off in convoy...