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...appears that operators of supersonic transports may have a happier choice. On the basis of preliminary experiments, two scientists at California's Northrop Corp. believe that the sonic boom may not after all be a necessary evil. Last week, at a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerodynamicists Maurice Cahn and Gustav Andrew suggested that an electric field projected in front of a supersonic plane might eliminate the boom, and lessen drag as well...
...Supersonic planes produce the same kind of pressure wave but actually outrace it, causing the air molecules to pile up. This effect, says Cahn, "produces a shock wave like cars slamming into each other on the freeway." To eliminate or reduce the booms caused by these shock waves, the Northrop scientists decided, SSTs would have to be provided with an artificial forward-moving "pressure wave" that they could not outrace...
...economical. But he points out that there would be less drag or air friction on a charged SST, reducing the power necessary to fly it at a given speed and altitude. He suggests that only further tests with larger models and wind tunnels-now being considered by Northrop, Boeing and NASA-can determine if the system is practical...
...military aid to Latin America 15% in the past two years (to $65 million) and refused export licenses for any supersonic jets sold in the area. When the Latin Americans took their military orders to Europe, Washington finally gave in, and two weeks ago permitted U.S. plane-makers-mainly Northrop, with its hot F-5 supersonic "Freedom Fighters"-to make what deals they could...
...city-state envisioned in Plato's Republic, or Sir Thomas More's Utopia, which was a bustling agricultural collective where everyone worked six hours each day. Hippie millenniarism is purely Arcadian: pastoral and primordial, emphasizing oneness with physical and psychic nature. The University of Toronto's Northrop Frye, a professor of English and a disciple of Communications Philosopher Marshall McLuhan, sees the hippies as inheritors of the "outlawed and furtive social ideal known as the 'Land of Cockaigne,' the fairyland where all desires can be instantly gratified...