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Should De Gaulle ever succeed in wedding his obese atomic bomb to his frail Diamant rocket (current orbital payload: 175 Ibs.), France will have obtained a nuclear-missile capability of sorts in the Western Hemisphere-a feat even Khrushchev presumably failed to achieve. France has magnanimously made clear that it plans to permit other nations to use its Guiana pad, including, by all means...
...Johnson had approved an extra $157 million to begin development of a mammoth new military cargo transport plane, the CX. About as long as a hockey rink and double the width of a moving van, the C-X would carry up to 600 troops and their equipment-a total payload of 250,000 Ibs. It should be operational by 1969, said McNamara, and plans call for ordering 58 of them at an eventual cost of $1 billion. Concluded he: "This will greatly increase our mobility, greatly reduce our reaction time and thereby greatly strengthen our capability to meet crises wherever...
...missile track in a perfect launch. Five minutes later, the protective shield, a redesigned shroud of magnesium thorium, was jettisoned right on schedule. Thirty-seven minutes after that, from a 115-mile-high parking orbit over the Indian Ocean, the rocket engine reignited, kicking the 575-lb. Mariner D payload toward Mars at the required speed-25,600 m.p.h. At week's end all was going well with Mariner D and its 138,-000 individual parts. But the spacecraft still has quite a way to travel-325 million miles along a route that is expected to carry it past...
...Station. Raytheon's microwave power transmission was developed under a contract with the Air Force, which confidently expects that later helicopters will be built to operate without guide wires. There should be no trouble making them hover at 50,000 ft. carrying a payload equal to their own weight. At this height they will be able to send line-of-sight communication beams to similar vehicles 600 miles away. As TV stations they will be capable of serving an area 50 times larger than can be reached by a 1,000-ft. tower. As radar stations, they could each...
...partly because the airplane has flown so far only in wind tunnels, and its true performance can only be estimated. But the Government claims it will be faster (about Mach 2.5, or 1,650 m.p.h.) than any operational plane. It will fly twice the distance and carry twice the payload of the best current U.S. fighter. By cruising at moderate speed with wings extended, it will have "transoceanic range without refueling"; if permitted to refuel, it can fly to any part of the earth in one day. It can land much more slowly than other jet fighters, which will permit...