Word: radar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edward Victor Appleton, 72, renowned British physicist and principal of Edinburgh University, who in 1924 proved that there were ionized layers in the upper atmosphere by bouncing short-length radio waves off them, a technique that made worldwide radio communication practicable, led directly to Britain's development of radar (thus giving the R.A.F. a crucial advantage over the numerically superior Luftwaffe), and won for the pioneering scientist the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics; of a stroke; in Edinburgh...
...What I Had Been Taught." Only a few weeks ago, Risner almost got killed. But his professionalism saved him. He now describes the experience with almost clinical detachment: "The target that day was a radar station in North Viet Nam. I was janking [changing altitude and direction continuously] when I got hit by ground fire. They got me four feet behind the cockpit, in the engine. I had to make a 180° turn to get out over the sea. When I got to the coastline, I figured I was safe. But in the water was an enemy gunboat...
Orders from Abroad. Franco may never be considered respectable enough to be granted full membership in the Western community, but he has come a long way. As a de facto member of NATO, Spain last year was given full control of the former U.S. radar defense-warning system, has been promised F-104 fighter-bombers for its air force, plans to zip it up even further, with 70 new F-5 supersonic bombers-to be built in Spain under license from Northrop. Spain still stands in the Common Market waiting room, but it is busily spreading a net of trade...
...system designed to dispel such confusion began advanced tests last week. Arriving airplanes make their appearances on the Atlanta scope as the usual blips, which look very much alike, but planes participating in the test carry electronic transponders that send back a coded signal along with their radar echoes. A computer built into the intricate electronic system provides information for a luminous square of letters and numerals that appears on the scope beside the blip. Called an "alphanumeric data block," it identifies the airplane and gives its altitude, which the transponder gets automatically from the plane's altimeter...
Encounter No. 2. The MIGs obviously had been directed by ground-control radar, probably from three stations that had the U.S. flights perfectly triangulated. The airborne radar in the F-100 patrol planes plainly did not offer equivalent, skywide coverage-but the U.S. has plenty of radar planes that do, and they presumably will be brought into use in the very near future...