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...Bomb Progress. If they are not yet as far advanced as they might wish in the manufacture of A-bombs, the Russians are well ahead in the field of V-bombs. They have concentrated particularly on very long-range attack by such self-propelled, pilotless aerial weapons, and it is reported that particularly satisfactory results have been obtained at an experimental station in Siberia near the Kamchatka peninsula. Over distances of 900 and 1,300 miles, they can now concentrate their aim within three to six miles of the target...
...understanding that he would fly it no faster than 82% of the speed of sound unless he was convinced that it would safely go faster. Approximately 20 more preliminary flights are planned between now and next summer; Goodlin has the privilege of recommending that the XS-1 be flown pilotless by radio control in its supersonic test. But last week, after months of devouring engineering and wind-tunnel reports, and after handling the plane under power, he said: "I know what this airplane can do. I think it will fly a thousand miles an hour and I think...
Scientists are also busy on defense. The Army has a smallish rocket called GAPA (Ground to Air Pilotless Aircraft) "believed capable of seeking out and destroying enemy weapons." Fired in salvos toward V2s picked up by radar, GAPA and its successors might "home" on them by magnetic attraction or heat radiation and destroy them high...
...plane controls are basically the same as those by which the Army flew two pilotless and crewless Flying Fortresses from Hawaii to California a fortnight ago. But a "mother" plane is not always needed. In short-range test work all the flying signals can be sent from a truck on an airfield...
...above was cut by fourscore planes, many of them pilotless, radio-controlled drones flown from Eniwetok or the carriers Shangri-La and Saidor. Worker planes kept these in their appointed rounds...