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...prop-driven RP-71 radios back target data it picks up by radar or infra-red sensory equipment. Night targets are lighted by a series of 300,000-candle-power flares, recorded by a motion-picture camera. When its mission is accomplished, the drone can be parachuted to earth, reused time and again. "These little fellows have four obvious pluses for the field commander," says an Army droneman. "They require no take-off or landing strip; they are effective at night, when the enemy makes his important moves; they are easily recoverable; and they are pilotless -precious life is being...
...Farm productivity has soared so fast over the past two decades that despite a steep drop in the number of farmers, food and fiber production has kept outrunning demand. Since demand is not big enough to support all U.S. farmers at free-market prices, the Government has tried to prop up farm income with price supports. But the price-support approach has been a costly, ineffectual flop (TIME...
...pilots of the twin-jet Voodoos dropped down only to 35,000 ft. for four or five refuelings at a whizzing 600 m.p.h., giving them a zooming advantage over pre-135 record seekers, who had to descend to 18,000 ft. and 250 m.p.h. to be refueled by prop-driven KC-97 tankers...
...short of the jet tankers needed for midair refueling at high altitude and high speed. Today SAC's B-525 must come down from 50,000 ft. to 18,000 ft. and from 650 m.p.h. to a stall-warning 250 m.p.h. to hook on to SAC's prop-driven KC-97 tankers (the equivalent of Boeing's old airline Stratocruisers). Remedy: a speedup of supply of the KC-135 jet tankers now dribbling into the Air Force at the rate of about four a month...
...scale model is currently on display in Lamont Library. Originally only a working model, it has become a prop for the Program for Harvard College. Teele stated that the Planning Office had "accelerated construction by about a year" in order that the model might be shown to alumni throughout the country...