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Moment for Instinct. Patton has developed his peripheral vision to the point where he can often watch the quarterback while also watching a receiver, or. failing that, catch sight of the ball in mid-air as it approaches. With other stars, like the Cardinals' Bill Stacy and the Colts' Andy Nelson, Patton has a sixth sense that alerts him when the ball is headed for another receiver. "There is that special moment when it is time to go for the ball and instinct takes over," says Jack...
...guided into orbit and its instrument capsule, at an electronic command, dropped back toward earth. But none of the capsules was recovered. The other achievements seemed secondary. Public fancy fastened on perhaps the Discoverer program's least important aspect: the attempt to snare the re-entry capsule in mid-air near Hawaii, with nets attached to specially equipped cargo planes. This made it a sort of heavenly baseball game -and the score stood at no runs, no hits, twelve errors. Actually, it mattered little how the capsule was recovered, as long as it was. Last week...
Among those still discussing and analyzing the cause of the Lockheed Electra crash (63 dead) near Tell City, Ind. last month, there appears an ominous possibility: that the aircraft was torn apart in mid-air by a phenomenon which airmen and meteorologists have taken to calling CAT-for "clear air turbulence." If the theory proves to be true, pilots will have to find ways to keep their ships out of CAT's claws...
After the second mid-air explosion in five months of a Lockheed Electra, FAA Administrator Elwood Quesada summoned airline representatives, aeronautical experts and Lockheed engineers to Washington last week for four days of closed-door talks. At week's end, Quesada ordered new restrictions on the 115 Electras in service, which will force airlines to change schedules, perhaps drop the planes from some routes. Items: ¶ A 295-m.p.h. limit was placed on cruising at the normal operational altitudes, 105 m.p.h. under the Eiectra's normal cruising speed, bringing it down to the speed of the older...
...made no emergency radio calls. All signs indicated that he was heading back toward Wilmington, fighting desperately to hold his plane on course as it lost altitude and tore itself apart. Some experts guessed that the trouble could have been caused by a runaway propeller; others wondered about a mid-air explosion...