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Taking this knowledge into the laboratory, a team of Air Force scientists led by Dr. Murray Zelikoff proved that small additions of nitric oxide can quickly unlock the energy stored in atomized oxygen. To test their conclusions on the atmospheric scale, they loaded steel cylinders containing 20 Ibs. of nitric oxide into the Aerobee, which triggered Holloman's celestial show at the 60-mile level...
Nobody knows how much energy is stored in the layer of atomic oxygen, but since the supply is renewed every day by sunlight, it should be inexhaustible. This opens up some interesting possibilities. In an earlier experiment the Cambridge men discovered that when nitric oxide is re leased in daytime, it is acted upon by sunlight and forms a dense cloud of electrified particles that reflect radio waves as a mirror reflects light. A few such reflectors properly spaced around the curve of the earth might support new kinds of long-range communication. Rockets fired at night might illuminate large...
...propel missiles or even aircraft. Nitric oxide may not be the only catalyst that works. The scientists speculate that some solid catalyst might be made into a tube or a honeycomb. When carried swiftly by a rocket through the upper air, it would swallow great volumes of atomic oxygen and make it combine into O2 molecules...
...energy given off were applied to a kind of jet propulsion, it could theoretically keep a rocket or plane flying indefinitely, as long as it stays in the atomic oxygen layer. An aircraft that can find its own fuel 60 miles above the earth has obvious value, both for war and for peace...
...British air force officer who rode the TU-104 from Moscow reported that "it flew beautifully," but the experts were interested in the fact that its 33,000-ft. altitude is below the economical altitude for most modern jets. Beside each pale blue seat was an oxygen mask, and the crew called for replacement oxygen when they reached London-apparently the TU-104 is only slightly pressurized. Experts guessed that when it is flying at 33,000 ft., the air pressure in the cabin is 20,000 ft. (the average passenger begins to suffer from lack of oxygen above...