Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There's a story about an elderly lady who went to see Hamlet for the first time. She liked it all right, except that it was full of quotations. The Maltese Falcon may seem like that after many years of imitations, but it's still one of the finest detective stories ever filmed...
...deadly Falcon air-to-air guided missile, Hughes Aircraft Co. has squeezed a guidance system equal to five TV sets into a space 6 in. by 10 in. World War II's 200-lb. automatic pilot is obsolete; a new model weighs only 75 Ibs. and performs six times as many functions. One item on the way: a small automatic pilot for helicopters, which are so difficult to fly that pilots sometimes pray for an extra hand. U.S. Time Corp., which makes 400, liny gyroscopes a month for guided missiles, is working on a plan to combine them with...
...mile ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile), got a low priority. An early contract with Convair was canceled, and work would have stopped entirely if Convair had not continued with its own money. Emphasis was put on defensive missiles-the ground-to-air Nike and the air-to-air Falcon-and on short-range offensive missiles for use near enemy lines...
...Falcon. Probably the most sophisticated missile now in large production is the small, graceful, air-to-air Falcon (Hughes Aircraft Co.). It is 6½ ft. long, 6 in. in diameter, weighs 120 Ibs. Its guidance system contains as many electronic elements as four television sets, all crammed into the space of a 2-lb. coffee can. The Falcon is a good example of the complication of missiles. The fighter plane that carries them is guided by ground radar until it is 20 miles from an invading bomber. Then the fighter's own radar picks up the target, locks...
...proper moment, a Falcon takes off with a great stab of flame. In seconds it reaches high supersonic speed. The nose strikes through the target's wing or body, and a charge of explosive detonates inside. When tested against a drone F-80 jet fighter, one of them flew up its tailpipe...