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Since Wild Horse Annie's campaign got under way, most Western states have outlawed mustang hunting by plane on state lands. After hearing her testimony last week, many sympathetic Congressmen agreed that the practice should be outlawed on federal lands, too. Passage of Wild Horse Annie's bill seems likely -with one amendment. The Interior Department claims the horses are a potential threat to grazing lands, asked the right to hunt them humanely if the herds get too big. Wild Horse Annie has no objection to that...
Laying Eggs. Everyone knew where the marauding planes were based: at the rebel stronghold of Menado in the Northern Celebes. But no one save the rebels themselves knew for certain where the small air fleet of four B-26s and two Mustang fighters had been purchased, or who were their pilots. Said a survivor of the tanker San Flaviano: "The plane came in mast-high and laid its eggs right on us. You can't tell me an American wasn't at the controls...
...spawn twisters are boiling with turbulence, and the black funnels themselves can tear an airplane to shreds. Pilot James M. Cook, 6 ft. 3 in. and slow-spoken, is thoroughly sane, but whenever a threatening cloud shows its face in the Middle West, he hops into his war-surplus Mustang at Kansas City and takes the cloud's pulse and temperature, even if it is crawling with vicious twisters...
Cook's specially equipped Mustang was ready for this year's tornado season, and he began his hunting on April 15. He carries 500 lbs. of weather instruments and a radio altimeter. A movie camera takes continuous pictures of the airplane's flying instruments. Whenever he thinks it worthwhile, Cook talks, in his calm drawl, to a tape recorder...
Under Wraps. As the first of the centuries, North American's F-100 is as great a leap over its F-86 Sabrejet of Korean war fame as the Sabre itself was over World War II's P-51 Mustang. Long and lethal-looking with 45° swept-back wings, the F-100 is the first operational fighter-and fighter bomber-to crack the sound barrier in level flight, broke the official world's record by flying 822 m.p.h. last year. Even then it was under wraps; estimates are that it can top 1,000 m.p.h. with...