Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that a tornado was coming. Tinker Field got a forecast of an 80-m.p.h. wind, which ensured all possible precautions. Less than seven hours after the warning, the "pattern" delivered the goods: a tornado that ripped right across Tinker Field. It was probably the first to be predicted with pinpoint accuracy...
...Jones hopes that his system will be ready next year for practical operation. Then the Weather Bureau can pinpoint an individual cloud and warn the people in its path to get under cover quick...
...Instrument Corp. gave the ancient science of celestial navigation a modern twist, announced a new sextant that, once preset, will seek out the proper star or planet, average a series of sights, and flash its readings by remote control to the navigator. With a three-star fix, he can pinpoint the position of his aircraft within two miles under normal flight conditions. But the big advantage lies in the fact that he can do it without ever budging from his navigation charts. The system would be of invaluable help to fighter-bomber pilots on long-range missions. Also, airmen have...
...transmitting towers will send out low-frequency signals over 2,500 to 3,000 miles. Friendly (and enemy) aircraft from the Azores to Seattle will be able to take a radio bearing into their electronic apparatus, measure their distance from Camden by comparing signals from the three antennas, and pinpoint their positions within ten miles. When a pilot gets close to his destination, he will switch from Navarho's beam to a short-range station, follow it in to the airfield...
...instructor sitting at his control console decides where the mission shall start. By setting the apparatus, he can fly the desk-bound students anywhere he pleases in the northern hemisphere. As the simulated bomber heads for Alaska. Petropavlovsk or Greenland, the chicken-wire dome with its pinpoint stars wheels and tilts slowly just as the real stars would seem to do from the observation window of a real bomber...