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Hughes may need cash for a new venture rumored to be in the offing. Last July, he bought 25% of the stock of Nicaraguan Airlines, apparently with the intention of developing an international air-cargo enterprise from a base in Managua. If so, the financial phantom may only be exchanging his long-coveted crown jewel for an old love, aviation...
...July, the same kind of damage was done to a pair of F-111 fighter-bombers at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The sabotage was discovered when a preflight electronic check-out indicated trouble. Then, in August, four RF4 Phantom jets at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas, were more ineptly sabotaged. Electrical plugs under the cockpit instrument panels were pulled out -a fact that was instantly perceived when the panel lights failed...
...kamikaze operations." Sadat had wanted the MIG-23, the hottest new airplane in the Soviet air force. "We have tested the MIG-23 here in Egypt," he told al Hawadess. "It flew more than once deep into Israel and took photographs. It has been proved that neither the Phantom nor the American-made missiles can reach the altitude of the MIG-23." If Egypt had got such a plane, Sadat intimated, the Middle East would be hotter now than it is. "I would not have allowed Israel to commit its aggression in southern Lebanon as it did recently...
...films from the Institute of Politics Series, "Interview" with President Salvador Allende" by Saul Landau Haskell Wexler, and Louis Malle's Phantom India (Part I), will be screened free tonight at 7:30 in HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH...
...missions, it is only relatively recently that miniaturized computers, tiny remote-controlled TV cameras, sophisticated laser-guided "smart bombs" and other breakthroughs in electro-optical gear have made RPVs both technologically and economically feasible for combat. The U.S.'s most widely used fighter-bomber, the F-4 Phantom, for example, costs $3.6 million; an RPV capable of the same missions, according to some experts, probably could be built for about $250,000 because the plane would not require such expensive features as ejection seats and life-support systems, which are necessary to ensure the pilot's safety. Even...