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Utilizing a retractable "variable-sweep" wing, the TFX will enable man to fly almost like a bird. To take off, soar and land, it will straighten its wings for maximum lift; in flight it will tuck its wings into its body, enabling it to dive and thrust like a falcon. Flying at more than twice the speed of sound, the two-man plane will range up to 3,000 miles with a load of nuclear-tipped missiles. The variable-sweep wing idea came from Aero-dynamist John Stack five years ago. when he was working for the Government. Big design...
...corridor point at the industrial heart of North America. RCAF commanders brought their five squadrons (64 planes) of U.S.-built F-101B Voodoo interceptors to combat readiness; air bases were sealed off, planes were fueled and armed-but with relatively ineffectual high-explosive warheads, not the nuclear tips their Falcon rockets must have to wipe out an entire squadron of attacking bombers in one blast. There was no point even alerting the Bomarc missile squadron at North Bay, Ont.: Bomarcs are as useless as spitballs without nuclear warheads...
...word in Detroit this year. It denotes a car whose silhouette flows from windshield to rear bumper in a continuous, rounded, convex curve. Chevrolet's completely redesigned Corvette hardtop is a fastback. So is the Studebaker Avanti (TIME, April 13). Ford calls its '63 Comet and Falcon hard-tops fastbacks, but they are really only "semi-fastbacks" because their rear windows break the curve...
Minutes later, Nikolayev radioed in. "This is Falcon. Confirming landing at 6sth orbit. The pressure in the cabin is i.i, the temperature 11° (Centigrade, equal to 52° F.), and the humidity...
Kiss on Earth. The Falcon landed first, at 9:55 Wednesday morning, in the hill and desert country near Karaganda, a Kazakhstan city 1,500 miles southeast of Moscow; he had completed 64 orbits, and in four days had traveled 1,663,000 miles, 3^ times the distance to the moon and back. Six minutes later, after 48 orbits and 1,247,000 miles, Popovich landed some miles away in the same region. Both men apparently stayed on board their capsules all the way down, unlike Titov, who parachuted to earth after completing his flight. Helicopters picked...