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...Dimona research facility and the separation plant are protected not only by Israeli troops but by highly sophisticated electronic systems and radar screens that operate around the clock. All aircraft?including Israeli military planes???are barred from flying over the areas where the nuclear plants are located. During the Six-Day War, in fact, an Israeli Mirage III?either out of control or with its communications gear in operative?inadvertently flew over Dimona. Israeli defenders shot it down with a ground-to-air missile. In 1973 a Libyan airliner flying from Benghazi to Cairo lost its way because...
...Biafrans are losing. Outnumbered and outgunned, they have been inexorably driven into a landlocked cir cle of rain forest entirely surrounded by federal forces. Their single remaining lifeline to the outside world is a widened stretch of blacktop road that serves as a nighttime landing strip for supply planes???when the planes can run the gauntlet of federal radar-controlled antiaircraft fire. But they are not only losing the war: slowly but surely, eight million Biafrans are starving to death. Gradually, the image of Biafra's human agony has unsettled the conscience of the world. That image...
...paradoxical figure, leary of publicity even as he competes for profits. Half introvert and half visionary, McDonnell sometimes seems a crusty, single-minded engineer who exists only for his work. But he is also a mystic missionary bringing word from another world, and all his fighter planes???Phantom, Demon, Banshee, Voodoo?bear names that testify to his long fascination with the abode of spirits...
...Louis Air Show which ended last week, gave the aviation industry no great exhilaration. Manufacturers went there hoping to get ideas on marketing planes???their great problem of 1930. Even last year production was much greater than demand, for two major reasons: 1) Manufacturers with plentiful money derived from sale of stocks had optimistically expanded their production facilities; 2) The public, over excited by 1927 and 1928 air exploits, was hedging on purchases, was beginning to buy chiefly for utilitarian needs. This hedging, aviation analysts find, is getting worse this year. However, factories are not expanding any more. Their owners...
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