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...practical grasp of man. None of the rockets now used in either the U.S. or Russian space programs are powerful enough to reach them. Even the huge and yet-unproven Saturn 5, which will carry men to the moon, would require an additional stage to send only a tiny payload on one-way trips, and would require six years to reach Saturn, 16 years to Uranus and 30.7 years to Neptune. But the planetary timetable may soon be revised. An ingenious navigational technique and new space engines, says a Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist, could drastically cut travel time to distant...
...whalelike Boeings (at $20 million each) have expansive notions about how to compart them. Pan American is pondering whether to put a piano bar aboard. TWA is contemplating a cocktail lounge and a nursery for children. To make room for such amenities, the airlines will sacrifice payload. Though designed with a 490-seat capacity, the 747s due for delivery starting in 1969 will actually carry from 340 to 390 passengers...
...Viet Nam-the Freedom Fighter is a lot of plane. With a razor-thin wingspan of only 27 ft., the F-5 can carry ordnance, including nuclear bombs, weighing up to half of its own 61-ton weight. That makes it, pound for pound, just about the biggest payload carrier of any supersonic plane. So maneuverable is it that pilots claim that "under 30,000 feet, the F-5 can lick anything that flies-no matter how fast...
...After the test ended in March, the Air Force kept the Little Tigers in Viet Nam-and talked of an order for from 300 to 500 more. Such talk stopped with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who argued that the F-5 still could not match the range and payload of the 1,600-m.p.h. Phantom, the No. 1 U.S. fighter...
...across Ohio's Clinton County Air Force Base, but all systems were Go. "T minus seven and counting," boomed the range officer's bullhorn. ". . . Five, four, three, two, one-ignition!" And with that, a 12-in. plastic, balsa and paper rocket zoomed aloft bearing a one-ounce payload of lead to the somewhat suborbital altitude of 800 ft. "Good shot," cheered the range officer. "A good bird...