Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undeniably one whale of a show. No fewer than 30 airbases in the U.S., Canada, Bermuda, the Azores, Scotland, England, France and Germany were involved. Two-fifths of the total MATS fleet was mobilized. To support the 2nd Armored, some 1,600 artillerymen and truck drivers from places like Fort Sill, Okla., and Fort Bragg, N.C., were brought into the picture. From Dow and Loring Air Force bases in Maine, 119 supersonic fighters and reconnaissance planes flew to bases in France as a strike force assigned to fly cover missions for the tankers during maneuvers in Germany...
...Fort Davis station began its observations in August, 1956. Since that time the observatory has been recording radiation from the sun 10 hours a day, every day of the year, except for the infrequent interruptions due to failures of the equipment. At 7 a.m. the station automatically turns itself on. A wire parabolic dish, 28 feet in diameter and mounted above the ground on steel legs, begins to follow the sun in its path through the sky. At the focus of this dish a complex antenna system receives the signals from the sun as they are reflected off the wire...
...megacycles. The six cathode ray screens are mounted one over another, with the highest frequencies at the bottom, and photographed with 70mm film which slowly winds past the display screens at the rate of 2.5 feet per hour. When the 100 foot rolls of film are later developed in Fort Davis, they give a permanent visual record of solar radio activity...
Next year is the low-point in the 11 year cycle of solar activity; it will be known to the world's scientific community as the International Year of the Quiet Sun (IYQS). For the Fort Davis station this means that there is little reason to operate the solar equipment, for the exciting radio activity that led to so many discoveries at solar maximum (1959) will be virtually nonexistent. The observations will continue only to preserve continuity of the records. The team out in Texas will have plenty to do, however, working with a new antenna which was built last...
...team of workers at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, using an 85 foot antenna similar to that in Fort Davis, had written a paper announcing that the radio waves from the Cran were sharply distored as they passed through the outer extensions of the sun's atmosphere. The Harvard group repeated the observations and found no distortion...