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Suddenly a Sparrow. The first encounter took place just north of Hanoi as four Air Force F-4C Phantom II jetfighters, flying "CAP" (Combat Air Patrol) for a bombing strike on the Bac Giang bridge linking Hanoi with China, headed down to their orbit area. At 18,000 feet they picked up "bogies" on their radar, and wheeled to intercept them. Within minutes they spotted six MIG-175 flying level in close formation below them. The MIGs jettisoned their external gas tanks, split up, and with cannons winking, climbed to meet the Phantoms' attack...
...Judge Alfred Luongo of the Philadelphia U.S. District Court, which had jurisdiction be cause Sellers and Walsh live in different states. Judge Luongo readily agreed that every golfer "assumes the risk or is guilty of contributory negligence if he intentionally or carelessly walks ahead or stands within the orbit of the shot of a person playing behind...
...only thing the European Launcher Development Organization (ELDO) has managed to put into orbit in the four years of its existence has been its own budget. The cost of an initial set of experiments has risen from a 1962 estimate of $196 million to the present estimate of $400 million, and tests are two years behind schedule...
...first proposed ELDO as a means of finding work for the Blue Streak missile when it was canceled as a military project, were threatening to pull out unless the project can be proved worthwhile. The French were sensibly proposing that instead of putting up purely experimental satellites, ELDO should orbit a paying payload, namely a communications satellite, which would require a bigger and more expensive vehicle. The French seem to be successfully playing on the fear of Europeans that eventually there will be only American and Russian satellites in orbit, broadcasting direct to TV receivers, without going through national broadcasting...
Huguenin hopes that this test vehicle, to be called Probe I, will be sent up near the end of this year. It will not orbit the earth, and its flight will last for only 30 minutes, he said. The test vehicle will include one of the two antennas planned for Pilgrim and two of the three spectrometers. Probe I will be launched from a NASA base in Virginia...