Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week with an Eastern Air Lines DC-7 bound from Charlotte, N.C., to New York's Idlewild airport. Idlewild was blanketed by dense fog, and the plane circled above the field for 30 minutes before it got clearance to make an instrument landing. Just as it was touching down, it veered to the right. A wingtip struck the ground, and the eerie, fog-shrouded night came ablaze. Emergency crews were on the spot within minutes, festooning the wreckage with fire-extinguishing foam. Of 46 passengers and five crew members, 26 survived-and 25 died...
...when the instrument is fixed on the center of the sun, it can record intensities over the entire spectrum, providing more detailed information on how and where flares originate and move outward through the sun's atmosphere...
...height of the rocket's trajectory, the nose cone should have opened, the spectrometer glided out on a trunnion and spent five minutes scanning the dise of the sun. The spectrometer then should have folded back into the nose cone. Hopefully, the instrument will be recovered when the cone lands in New Mexico...
Some time next year, the instrument will orbit around the earth aboard an observatory satellite, OSO II, which will collect data on the sun and return it to Florida, where it will be processed and wired to Cambridge within the hour...
...information recorded by the instrument will then be recorded and relayed to earth on command. Each complete scan will take about four-and-one-half minutes and should provide a crude ultra-violet picture of the whole...