Word: norad
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Instead the ancient Douglas headed north over the Gulf of Mexico, flying through the night with no approved flight plan or warning lights and maintaining radio silence. Neither the Federal Aviation Administration nor the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) picked it up on radar as it flew low into dense fog over Louisiana. The foreign invaders might have escaped detection altogether but for the fact that their plane lost power and crash-landed in the trees near Farmerville, just south of the Arkansas-Louisiana border...
Even more disturbing in some quarters than the magnitude of the marijuana traffic is the fact that a plane as large as a DC-7 can penetrate the U.S. from the south totally undetected by military air-defense systems. Concedes NORAD's Del Kindschi: "The defense is not ironclad. It's possible for a single low-flying aircraft to fly under our radar capabilities." NORAD is developing an "over-the-horizon" radar with greater capability for spotting low planes but, for general operational use, the system may be years away. Radar beamed from sophisticated AWACS (Airborne Warning...
...child of Depression-era Florida and a veteran of the segregated armed forces, James joined in an early black sit-in in 1945, flew 101 combat missions in Korea and 78 more in Viet Nam, rose to be commander in chief of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) before his retirement this month. In answer to questions about his career, James developed a standard response: "I got here because I'm damned good...
...early last month, NORAD's computer analysis placed the probable re-entry point at somewhere over North America. On Jan. 12, Brzezinski opened the diplomatic dialogue by summoning to the White House Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, a former aerodynamicist who knew exactly what was at stake. Brzezinski politely pointed to the possible "serious hazard to the public" if Cosmos 954 fell in a populated area and asked the Russians to share any information that would enable "appropriate measures to be taken to obviate such dangers." The U.S. particularly wanted to know more precisely the enrichment of the uranium...
...last Monday afternoon, NORAD had a better fix on the decaying orbit, projecting the terminal track across the Australian deserts, then northeastward over the Pacific and into the beginning of reentry over the Queen Charlotte Islands, off British Columbia. Before dawn, Brzezinski was aroused with the news that Canada indeed...