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...copter concentration in Alabama is a product of the conflict in South Viet Nam and of the new combat techniques that it has generated. In that war without front lines, holding territory is less important than being able to move over it quickly and at will. Helicopters play a vital, versatile role: they ferry in whole battalions for surprise assaults, carry supplies and reinforcements to the besieged, as in the battle of Plei Me (TIME, Nov. 5), rescue the wounded and the stranded, rake the enemy with fire. And hundreds more are needed. Since President Johnson ordered the massive...
...Lockheed is experimenting with an odd-looking, stub-winged plane that takes off as a helicopter with rotors spinning overhead, folds the rotors into its body, then flies on at speeds of up to 500 m.p.h. Vertol is designing a tilt-winged aircraft that also lifts off as a copter, with its wings in a vertical position, then speeds forward as the wings are tilted horizontally and propellers take over to pull it along. Hughes's experimental XV-9A shoots hot gases out of rotor-tip vents for increased power. The industry has also developed all-weather instruments, automatic...
...repeatedly violating the armistice and plotting to renew the war. U.S. General George Cloud sighed wearily and doodled on a pad during the Chinese and English translations following Chang's speech in Korean. Then Cloud ticked off Communist violations, again demanded the release of the two U.S. copter men. At one point, Cloud snapped at Chang: "You carry on like a cheap burlesque actor. Control yourself. Discipline yourself...
...model, a kind of compact copter, has a cruising speed of 70 m.p.h., a maximum speed of 86 m.p.h., a range of 200 miles and an endurance of three hours in the air. Special effects include a 360° visibility, a tinted canopy to protect against sun glare, and air-oil shock-absorbing landing skids that "smooth out" the roughest terrain. It is also economical-13? a mile by Hughes's estimate. With 53 dealers already signed up and expectations of many more, Hughes has stepped up production to one copter a day, confident the idea will soon catch...
...back to base after 15 hours of continuous assaults against Red positions one night last week, a U.S. whirlybird suddenly toppled out of formation and, with its red flying lights carving crazy patterns in the darkness over the Mekong River, spun into the ground. When rescue workers reached the copter's twisted wreckage, they found the mangled bodies of seven U.S. crew members. With ten Americans already killed in 1963, one U.S. adviser remarked bitterly: "It looks like this is going to be a hell of a year...