Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prototype, G.E. recorded and encoded the sounds of normal engines in U.S. Navy Phantom and Vigilante aircraft along with 62 separate malfunctions. A portable version of the analyzer, which should be in use by next year, could easily be adapted for work on automobile engines on industrial assembly lines...
...amenities above are not enough to make the passengers forget the war below. Viet Cong snipers occasionally pepper the planes-but have failed to bring any of them down. On a recent flight between Saigon and Danang, passengers in the high-flying Caravelle stared down in fascination at U.S. Phantom jets making low-level passes at the jungle-covered Viet Cong...
...Phantoms & Diplomats. Though Premier Nguyen Cao Ky promises to execute profiteers, he has yet to make good his threat-and bullets alone can hardly reverse Saigon's rising tide of corruption. A huge, incalculable bite from Washington's $1 billion foreign-aid program is taken each year by government and military officials. U.S. refrigerators and air conditioners meant for hospitals end up in generals' homes; troop commanders collect the "phantom pay" of soldiers whose deaths in combat go unreported to Saigon. For $675, a well-to-do youth can buy an Interior Ministry "diploma" that certifies...
...experimental XH-51 helicopter, the fastest (270 m.p.h.) in the free world, and a Lockheed C-141 StarLifter, the largest craft at the show, flew across the Atlantic with an inflatable Army field hospital. The Defense Department showed off combat aircraft that ranged from McDonnell's supersonic Phantom F-4Bs to a 20-year-old F-51 Mustang fighter, and a 96-ft. Atlas missile towered over the sprawling 85-acre exhibition...
...YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE. Rex Harrison and Jeanne Moreau, Alain Delon and Shirley MacLaine, Omar Sharif and Ingrid Bergman, pair up and climb in and out of a 1930-model Phantom II, lending elegance and star power to an episodic movie about roadside amour...