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...radar in a DC-3 (dubbed ' Sir Echo"). Unlike lower and higher frequency radar, the C-band radar scanned both a storm and the weather on the other side, enabled the pilot to spot and follow the path of least turbulence through the storm, or to detour conveniently if his route was clearly blocked. One important safety feature: the pilot, watching his scope, could see not only storms but the mountains-if any-that lay in wait inside them...
Like all commercial airliners, the Cathay Pacific Skymaster (a Douglas DC-4), bound from Bangkok to Hong Kong, was making the usual detour around Communist-held Hainan Island early one morning last week. It was well out to sea, in the approved international corridor. Suddenly, two prop-driven fighters, the red markings bright on their cream-colored paint, flew up alongside, dropped back, and stitched through the airliner from behind with cannon and machine-gun fire. The Skymaster's outboard port engine caught fire; the next burst knocked out the outboard starboard engine, and set the wing tanks ablaze...
...Northern Territory on the long (1,051 miles) run to Darwin. South and west across the "Outback" to the coast, the road was a nightmare of anthills and black "bulldust." Angry stockmen, who declared that the cars were frightening cattle, locked their gates and forced the travelers to detour. Indignant aborigines brandished tomahawks at the noisy invaders. Bush flies descended in swarms on bone-tired drivers taking catnaps. And in the tiny pearl-fishing town of Broome, the car crews found hardly enough food and beer to go around. By then, 88 entrants had dropped...
...explained that a storm which passed through Boston about a week ago became "stalled" over the Atlantic Ocean. Warm air coming up from the south was forced to detour around this storm and remained over the east coast region...
...24th Division fought a series of desperate delaying actions designed to slow the Red flood and borrow time for the Eighth Army to unload at Pusan and establish a firm line of defense. Each hour of delay, each blunting skirmish that forced the Communists to detour or deploy, was a small triumph, paid in full with American lives. Four times on the bloody road from Seoul the G.I.s halted the Reds briefly, upsetting their timetable and flattening their warhead...