Word: radar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seconds later, with what a control-tower officer called "awful suddenness," the Viscount disappeared from Gatwick's radar screen. Three and a half miles from the airport, the big turboprop plane topped the pines in Jordan's Woods, cut a 30-ft. swath through the saplings, slammed into an oak tree 50-ft. tall. Both wings and all four engines were sheared off. Exploding fuel tanks set fires among the pines. The plane's tail, which had snapped off, hung eerily from a fog-shrouded tree...
...transport carrying 17 men. In flying a course from Trabzon to Van, Turkey in high winds and bad weather, the C-130 had strayed over the Turkish "fence" into Communist territory, possibly confused by high-strength directional signals from Soviet radio stations. Following the vectors from their own ground radar stations, the Russians sped toward the target area, barking pilots' combat chatter over the radio. The monitors caught virtually every word that mattered...
...declaration that the British were reneging on the idea of sending an armored column through to Berlin, even as a last resort, brought British Ambassador to Washington Sir Harold Caccia hustling into the State Department with a hard denial that Britain had done any such thing. Soviet radar jamming devices now all but rule out an easy repetition of the electronics-backed Berlin airlift, but the British feel that public discussion of blockade-busting devices should be confined to airlift talk. Behind the scenes, the British government has agreed in principle to the use of an armored column if necessary...
...government to withstand the pounding seas and polar ice of the wildest stretch of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the barren shores of Greenland. She had a double steel bottom, an armored bow and stern, and was divided into seven watertight compartments; she carried the most modern instrumentation, from radar to gyro, from Decca Navigator to radio-equipped life rafts. Her veteran captain, P. L. Rasmussen, 58, declared: "This ship means a revolution in Arctic navigation." Boasted a government official: "Now we can sail to Greenland all year round...
...time in Sabres alone ranged from 300 to 1,400 hours. The Communists appeared inexperienced and indecisive, poor in gunnery and teamwork: The U.S. Air Force air-transported its newest F-104 Starfighters from the U.S. to Formosa in a matter of days, got them airborne and onto Red radar screens at 1,400 m.p.h...