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...that has grown proportionately with increasing aircraft speeds. Clawing without warning at fast-flying jets, CAT wreaks death and injury and causes millions of dollars of damage annually to commercial and military aircraft. But CAT may soon be stripped of its coat of invisibility. Preliminary tests of a new infra-red detector indicate that areas of turbulence can be spotted as far away as 48 miles, giving jet pilots as long as four minutes to take evasive action...
...increasingly taking all the comforts of home into the wilderness, or what passes for it. Actually, most pampered campers turn up their noses at campgrounds that do not offer all the necessities: umbilicals for electricity, water and sewage, plus coin-operated washing machines and dryers, vending machines and infra-red ovens that will cook up a hamburger in 30 seconds...
Split Image. To test his suspicion, Kuiper loaded a team of scientists, a twelve-inch telescope and some complex infra-red instruments into a NASA Convair 990 jet last month and flew along a computer-determined course between Montreal and Lake Superior. At its 37,000-foot altitude, the plane was above 99.5% of the earth's atmospheric water vapor, which ordinarily confuses ground-based astronomers attempting to determine the amount of water on other planets...
...Four Santa Barbara college students lost most of their reading vision by looking straight at the sun. Under LSD they could do this for three or four minutes, hardly squinting and feeling no pain, so their eyes were wide open to the sun's infra-red rays, and the macula, the point of clearest vision in the retina, was badly burned. There is no effective treatment. Explained one boy: "I was holding a religious conversation with...
Target-Range Marksmanship. Designed to protect conventional 140-m.p.h. Hueys and other troop-carrying choppers against ground fire, the Cheyenne will pack rockets, anti-tank missiles, a grenade launcher and belly-mounted automatic cannon. Even its looks can kill: if the gunner, using a computer and enemy-seeking infra-red sight, has his hands full with one target, the pilot, who wears a special sight-equipped helmet, can automatically take aim at another merely by glancing...