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...recovers, a morose and different man. Late one night at home, he is obsessed with running the race again. He hands the revolver to his wife, who is unfamiliar with it. With a hurried instruction about the safety catch, he is off. She shoots him dead in mid-air over the sofa...
...Starfighter evidently plowed into the right side of the Valkyrie's delta wing, rolled leftward across its top, damaging the B-70's tall, right vertical stabilizer and snapping off the left one. Over the intercom to ground control crackled Cotton's voice: "Midair, mid-air"-Air Force shorthand for collision. Then, sounding almost laconic, Cotton radioed guidance to the stricken ship's two-man crew: "O.K., it looks like your tail is gone . . . You'll probably spin." And as the B70 did wind into a flat spin: "Bail out." Then: "One capsule has ejected...
Died. Joseph A. Walker, 45, foremost U.S. test pilot; in a mid-air collision of his F-104 Starfighter with one of the two XB-70 research bombers; near Barstow, Calif, (see THE NATION...
...reports its house organ, Lab News, was to work out what had happened to the lost bomb. Had it broken apart in the air, or come down intact? Had it fallen freely to the land below, or been carried far out to sea on its parachute? To simulate a mid-air breakup, the scientists dropped bomb parts from a high-flying plane at White Sands Missile Range, then photographed the craters made by the parts as they hit the ground. The pictures were rushed to Palomares, where searchers looked in vain for similar patterns on Spanish soil...
...years, companies have been working toward onboard warning systems to prevent mid-air collisions, which are often the result of visual illusions that lead pilots astray. Last month the Air Transport Association announced that development of a practical, economical device is "now closer to realization than at any time in the past." The promising system is McDonnell Aircraft's "Eros" (for Eliminate Range System), which will beep a warning to pilots when two planes get on a collision course. It will also instruct pilots-by means of arrows on the instrument panel -which way to turn to avoid trouble...