Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rate of one a day. Though his large, snow-peaked figure is a familiar sight in and around Zurich, very few of his fellow citizens have the slightest idea who he is, and most of them think of him vaguely as a pleasant old man who likes people and dogs. Dr. Jung, in approaching a dog, will pat its head and observe gravely that dogs dream, and therefore have some part in the collective unconscious too. "Oh yes," he will continue, "certainly the higher animals participate in it. It is easy to communicate with them. Of course, with the lower...
...step toward this goal is the "semiautomatic interceptor" such as the Lockheed Starfire (F-94C) and the North American F-86D, which airmen call the "Dog." Both are in limited production (the Starfire was announced this week), but neither is in tactical operation...
Ring of Rockets. Neither plane is exactly new. The Starfire is a refinement of the F-94; the Dog an improved Sabre jet with its nose redesigned to house additional radar equipment. Neither plane carries guns, only rockets. The Starfire's twenty-four 2.75-in. rockets are tucked away in a ring around its blunt, black, radar-packed nose. In normal flight they are covered by faired-in doors. An instant before the rockets are fired, the doors snap open. They snap shut again in a flash...
North American's Dog is a single-seater, but the Starfire carries both a pilot and a radar operator. Some Air Force authorities think that, even with a troop of electronic assistants, there is too much concentrated work on a fast interceptor for one man to handle...
Both planes are loaded with electronics; the Starfire carries 1,200 Ibs. of the intricate stuff, the Dog, more than 1,000 Ibs. Both planes work about the same way. When ordered into the air, they are taken off by their pilots and, coached by ground radars, are flown toward the target: an approaching enemy bomber. At some stage in the proceedings, the planes' electronic senses and brains take over the flying job. Their radar eyes watch the target. Their electronic computers analyze the target's course and tell an automatic pilot where to steer the plane...