Word: radar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radar 9 to 5. The speediest operational craft in the Australian air force are ten-year-old, subsonic F-86s, which are only slightly faster than modern jet airliners. The air force is even short of grease monkeys, must farm out repairs to private mechanics. Australia's combat fleet consists of 14 antiquated vessels-the aircraft carrier Melbourne, three destroyers (there were four until the Melbourne accidentally sliced one in half last February), and a handful of frigates and minesweepers. The northern port of Darwin is garrisoned by only 150 troops; its coastal guns have been dismantled and sold...
...optics, such as mirages and sundogs account for many other sightings. Bright meteors, stars or planets are also responsible. Under special conditions, as studies clearly demonstrate, the observed "objects" can appear to move at fantastic speeds and display an ability to elude attempts of the observer to intercept it. Radar sightings are fully as subject to such vagaries as the optical sightings. There are also many hoaxes to confuse the issue further...
...their own weight. At this height they will be able to send line-of-sight communication beams to similar vehicles 600 miles away. As TV stations they will be capable of serving an area 50 times larger than can be reached by a 1,000-ft. tower. As radar stations, they could each guard a large part...
...destruction more effectively than does all of Fail Safe. But Lument's camera work, instead of adding to Fail Safe's statement, merely wears out the viewer with its monotonous tension. He uses all the standard melodramatic shots, close-ups of sweating brows and tight lips, prolonged views of radar screens and bug-eyed pilots in oxygen masks. This technique is a device for making the viewer nervous and reinforcing tension in the film. But used too heavily, as it is in Fail Safe, the technique becomes irritating...
...lines will show their movies free to all classes. What the passenger gets is sound and pictures that are surprisingly clear, though the new systems still have some bugs to work out. (American's TV screens are thinly gold-plated to minimize interference with the plane's radar.) The individual earphones can be somewhat uncomfortable after a while, but better, foam-rubber headsets are being installed. The earplugs are sterilized and reused-when that is possible. Last year passengers stole about 50,000 from...