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...Martin--no American test pilot should be allowed to look dissimilar to Roy Martin--unintentionally flatters his charge by asking him whether he was ever a fighter jock. Martin needs this information to guide his presentation. After all, one should never bore the experienced with a nuts-and-bolts primer. The visitor answers negatively, tugs a forelock and asks how fast the F-20 accelerates from zero to 60. (Two and one-half minutes after a cold start, the Tigershark is flying at 38,000 ft., 13 miles from its base, the plane's radar locked in on an intruder...
...conference room, Martin explains that the plane is simplicity itself. "Say there is a penetration ..." "Of what?" "Your airspace." "Oh." "And you want to launch against that guy and find out who it is. The F-20 is tailored so that as soon as you turn the electrical system on, you can hit the air." About here in the pilgrim's education, his mind commences laboring furiously to comprehend the first of hundreds of tight little wads of initials they use in the defense game. In this case it is the INS, or inertial navigation system, whose alignment takes three...
...listener, who had once confused the word amenities with the word accessories in a conversation with a car dealer in Manhattan, only to be scolded, "You want amenities, try Eighth Avenue!" keeps his mouth shut. "Now we're airborne," Martin is saying...
...carry any air-to-ground weapons you can think of," Martin is saying, ticking off a laundry list. "The mission computer knows the ordnance you've got onboard. It knows bomb ballistics and range. The information comes on the HUD with a symbol--a little diamond over the target, just like an Atari video game. In the CCIP [continuously computed impact point] mode, your job is to put the diamond over the target, hit the pickle button and bombs come off. And we hit. Well, within...
...board's action went against the view of the Reagan Administration, which believes that mergermakers should be unfettered by Government regulations. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Preston Martin and Board Member Martha Seger, who were both appointed by President Reagan, voted against the measure. Martin warned that the central bank was "starting on a slippery slope" in adopting the rule, but the Administration indicated last week that it will not challenge the central bank's move...