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...course he wants to follow within the territory of a certain omnirange. The gadgets do the rest, measuring continuously both distance and direction and digesting the information electronically. All the pilot has to do is watch the magic needle. As long as it is vertical, he is on his preset course. He can fly where he chooses, selecting the most direct route and avoiding traffic by never coming close to an airport until he nears his final destination...
...commanding robot was a snarl of electronic equipment affectionately known as "the Brain." Everything it did on the long flight was "preset" before the start. In mid-Atlantic, the Brain picked up radio signals from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. Later it picked up a beam from Droitwich, England, and followed that for a while. When the plane neared Brize Norton, the wide-awake Brain concentrated on a special landing beam from an R.A.F. radio and made a conventional automatic landing...
...Guide Problem. Simplest missiles are not guided at all; they are "preset" on a calculated course toward the target, as the V-weapons were. "Command" missiles follow orders (radio signals) from the ground, a ship, or a piloted aircraft. "Along-the-way" missiles carry equipment which detects deviations from an established course through space. "Homing" missiles are attracted, like moths to a street light, by the target itself. If the target gives off sound waves, light, heat, or electrical influences, the missile picks up the trail and follows it to the kill...
Piepkorn is scheduled to arrive at the school on the 17th of the month, and according to preset plans he will leave this weekend. No definite information as to the form of training he will be given is available...
...recognition of inconveniences to undergraduates living in the Houses due to the preset parietal rule requiring a second woman to be present during the reception of a woman guests in the rooms, and also in recognition of the general feeling of the undergraduates against said rule, it is respectfully recommended that said rule requiring the attendance of a second woman be repealed, and that the parietal rules, relating to the entertainment of women guests then be revised and standardized...