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Experience in the actual navigation of spacecraft right from the cockpit is almost nonexistent at present. The Mercury capsule which has made three orbital flights, is largely controlled from the ground. Mercury astronauts can partially shut off ground control by flipping switches; they are in fact, told to do so in order to eliminate the remote possibility that a stray electronic impulse (or an enemy-sent signal) might fire their retrorockets prematurely. But eventually they must flip that vital switch back on again. Only a signal sent from the ground at the proper instant can bring them safely down...
...Thomas Baker Slick. 46. lusty San Antonio wheeler-dealer, whose shrewd investments turned a multimillion-dollar inheritance from his wildcatting father into a scatter-gunned business empire (ranching, construction, oil. mining, manufacturing and air freight); of injuries rei ceived when his light plane crashed in j southwestern Montana. The flip side of I the coin from his sober, mild-mannered I brother Earl, who concentrated on running Slick Airways. Tom preferred to let his money make the money, hired managers to handle the headaches while he indulged a Stetson-ful of sidelines: he pursued the Himalayas' Abominable Snowman, dabbled...
Says a rival publisher: "Sir Frank will stop at nothing to save a quid or earn one." Yet he has been known to bet $7,-ooo on the flip of a coin, and some of that same compulsive gambler's plunge led him to challenge for the America...
...seemed at first like a great idea. A television camera was discreetly installed in the apartment-house lobby. When an apartment owner's bell rang, all he had to do was flip his TV set to Channel 4, and the image of his caller flashed on the screen over a specially installed closed circuit. Thus tenant could have a good look at caller before deciding...
...Special Air Warfare Center at Eglin seems like a flashback to 1944, when Colonel Philip G. Cochran's (the Flip Corkin of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip) 1st Air Commando Force flew P-52s, B-25s and C-47s across the Burma treetops in support of British General Orde Wingate's Chindits. The outfit was disbanded shortly after World War II. But today at Eglin, members of the all-volunteer 1st Air Commando Group work with ancient C46 and C-47 transports, stub-nosed B-26 light bombers, and prop-driven, single-engined...