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Science Writer Jack Leonard is too tall for his job. In this day of jet fighters and radar, when a scientist's work may soon be tested in the cockpit, Leonard has trouble folding his 6 ft. 2 frame inside some places where he finds his stories...
...cockpit of a fast plane is only one of the many odd spots where Leonard goes to do his job-giving TIME-readers first-hand accounts of scientific advances, their business and military uses. Last fall, for instance, he had slightly more roomy quarters at Cambridge and Oxford Universities for a couple of weeks, while he studied the new theory of the universe's origin, worked out by English cosmologists ("According to Hoyle," TIME...
...cockpit of the F-94, a wealth of information crackles in on the headsets of the pilot and his radarman. Ground radars are tracking the target and feeding their reports to a central station (location secret). Back come crisp directions for the local G.C.I. (Ground Control Intercept) to relay to the planes aloft. For a time there is nothing for the crew to do but fly the directed course at 600 m.p.h...
...dusty airport outside Detroit one February day in 1926, Henry Ford braced himself against a cutting wind, and lifted a sack of mail to a goggled pilot in an open-cockpit Stout monoplane. The engine roared, and the little 100-m.p.h. plane lurched down the runway and took off for Cleveland, 91 miles away. It was the first flight of airmail under the recently passed Kelly Act. To airmen, it was the beginning of commercial aviation in the U.S. Until then, the U.S. Army and a few private operators had flown the mail for the Post Office Department...
...development in naval warfare. Subsequent scenes show detailed launchings of smaller 'Loon' and 'Dragonfly' rockets from land platforms, along with the radio and radar equipment that controls them. Navy scientists also demonstrate the weird acrobatics of a radio-controlled torpedo plane landing with hatch drawn back, exposing the empty cockpit. When these documentary scenes predominate, as they do in the first half of the picture, "Guided Missile" is interesting and dramatic...