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...Dart, sent a drone aircraft to the ground in blazing bits. As a Tactical Air Command flight of F-105s sped overhead, a simulated nuclear bomb was exploded in a miniature fireball and nonradioactive mushroom cloud. As the waves of noise, heat and blast rolled across Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, Commander in Chief John Kennedy grinned from a rocking chair. The U.S. Air Force was putting on a show for the boss-and the boss seemed impressed...
...says an Air Force general, "the attitude is 'So what?' But in a presidential show, well, it's for keeps." Adds one of his Pentagon colleagues: "They're just as tough as combat operations, and sometimes men get hurt or killed." In preparing for the Eglin show, one did. Captain Charles G. Lamb Jr., 31, of Indianapolis, died when his F-10s disintegrated at 2.000 ft. as he practiced a supersonic bomb pullout with a force...
...second dust-catching rocket launched from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., carried instruments that reported micrometeorite impacts and sent the information to earth by radio. The tapes of this test will not be fully interpreted for some time, but they have already roughly confirmed the existence of the dust layer. When the analysis is finished, Dr. Soberman hopes to have a better explanation of the mysterious micrometeorite belt that hangs like a faint cloud at the outer fringe of the atmosphere...
...Eglin Air Force Base...
...prove it, an eight-jet B-52G lifted off from Florida's Eglin Air Force Base last week with a 43-ft. Hound Dog slung under each wing. Air Force Captain Jay L. McDonald, 36, piloted the bomber over Cincinnati, Lake Superior, Hudson Bay and to the North Pole; then he wheeled it back all the way to Florida and unleashed one of the Hound Dogs. Still fully operative after the rigors of a combat-type, 10,800-mile, 22-hour plane flight, the missile streaked off on a northern course at close to Mach 2 speed. Then...