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...piloted airplane itself is rapidly heading toward obsolescence as a military weapon; he regards the guided missile as the freshest egg in the basket and believes that North American is its leading mother hen. At the Government's test site at Alamogordo, N. Mex., North American's "NATIV" (North American Test Instrument Vehicle) has soared ten miles high at supersonic speeds. His aerophysics laboratory at Downey, Calif, is ready for actual production of missiles controlled from ground to ground...
Last week the Air Force announced that it has developed and tested two rockets that are really guided. One, the NATIV (North American Test Instrument Vehicle), is a small contraption 13 feet long, designed for high-speed aerodynamic studies. The other, the 774, looks like a formidable weapon (see cut). It is 32 feet long (the V-2 was 45 feet long), and, says the Air Force, "is potentially capable of attaining altitudes of more than 100 miles...
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