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...correspondents from Boston to Los Angeles spoke with academic experts, arms manufacturers and dealers, but the main files came from Washington. There, Joseph Kane, who covers the Pentagon, and Jerry Hannifin, our expert in military and aerospace technology, collaborated to analyze the policies and hardware of the world's largest arms purveyor: the U.S. No stranger to weapons or military politics, Kane commanded a howitzer battery in the peacetime Army in Germany in the early 1950s. As Atlanta bureau chief he directed coverage of the William Galley court martial, last year reported for our cover story on Defense Secretary...
...Hannifin, a licensed pilot for more than 25 years, has flown several of the U.S.'s "hottest" fighters (among them the F-105 and the A-7 Corsair II) in the course of covering civil and military aerospace for TIME. Besides reporting for the arms trade story, both Hannifin and Kane contributed to an analysis of the new electronic weapons, which may radically alter the dynamics of future wars and which, we feel, warrant a separate story in this week's Science section...
When word of TIME'S cover story circulated among Washington arms dealers, Hannifin found himself invited to West Virginia by a munitions merchant to try his hand at firing M-16s and Uzis. "I didn't shoot badly," he reports, "perhaps because I remembered what my old rifle-team instructor at Boise, Idaho, high school taught me. I put a speck of cigarette tobacco in my shooting eye to help with the windage...
...took photographs and gathered data without being damaged by the blast. After such daring forays, SR-71 pilots would decorate their fuselages with the silhouette of a cobra-like poisonous snake called the habu, which inhabits a Pacific island where SR-71s are based. When TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin noticed that an SR-71 on public display near Washington in 1973 bore no fewer than 42 habus, he inquired about those missions. The Pentagon responded by ordering all the emblems scrubbed...
...Ranch. As Johnson prepares to retire to his cattle ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif, he is uneasy about the state of American aviation. "We are in a time of great confusion without any forward-looking programs," he told Hannifin. He does not expect an American SST before 1990. Nor does he expect any significant design breakthroughs soon. What he foresees is greater emphasis on fuel economy, with aircraft "flying higher and farther with good payloads, but not necessarily faster...