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REVERSING the trend to more expensive and complex fighter planes, Britain's small Folland Aircraft, Ltd. is building a light, simple jet fighter, the Gnat, that could be produced in swarms to fight off bombers. Weighing only 5,500 Ibs. (v. 16,500 for the Sabre jet), the Gnat will carry twin 30-mm. cannons, and climb to 40,000 feet in less than five minutes. Northrop, Lockheed and North American have also proposed building lightweight jets, and the Air Force will soon ask U.S. plane builders to submit plans...
...Like a Gnat...
There is also the possibility--we should say probability--that Chiang could exert all the force of a gnat against Mao. Kuomintang officials themselves have reckoned that preparations will take a year. But even Chiang's much discussed "commando raids," could do little damage unless supported by American forces. If anything, Eisenhower's order will thus have little significance save balming the torture minds of those who demand action--any action...
Most of the distance they traveled by log canoe, moving overland when rapids and falls made the river too dangerous. Swarms of mosquitoes and jejenes ( a tiny black gnat whose bite raises large welts) harassed them all the way. The high, thick jungle along the river banks cut off the sun and every portage had to be hacked clear with machetes...
...giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. had a gnat in its ear. Not much damage was being done, but it was annoying...