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...cable tipped by a "forest penetrator": a 25-lb. sinker that can plunge through heavy foliage, then, petal-like, open up to form three seats. Rescue squadrons stand on alert for every sortie northward, and some even nest for a period within North Viet Nam, waiting for a mayday call...
...precisely time for a rescue, and onto the scene fluttered a re vamped "Silver Angel"-the stubby-winged HU-16 sea-rescue amphibian of Air Force Captain David P. Westen-barger, who had been on patrol 150 miles away when he first heard the radioed cry of "Mayday." Dropping through the cloud layer to 100 ft., West-enbarger saw an oncoming 30-ft. junk spitting machine-gun bullets just short of Huggins. "Dunk that junk," he ordered four fighters circling overhead. As they complied, Westenbarger splashed down near Huggins, taxied between him and the pistol-packing swimmers, pulled the downed...
Hearing Miller's report that "the outer-wing tank has blown," Kimes called the San Francisco tower. "Clipper 843. Mayday! Mayday! We got problems with power here." No answer. Kimes called again, more insistently. The tower heard this time, told him that other planes in the area were holding, and that he was "cleared to land on any runway...
...Mayday! Mayday!" "I've got it," Kimes called as he took over the contols. Miller, reacting automatically as a result of hundreds of simulated emergency sessions, punched a button under the flashing red light, releasing fire-extinguishing chemicals into No. 4 engine. Meanwhile, Kimes was desperately trying to keep the plane level...
...paying even 10% of the SST cost. He therefore chose to delay the SST. The U.S. is already far behind the Anglo-French consortium, which expects to put its Vlach 2 Concorde into commercial service in 1971. U.S. aviation industrialists now hope that the President has heard heir mayday cries and will see fit to put the U.S. SST program back on he runway...