Word: radar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Voice communications with the ground were routine throughout the brief eleven-minute flight. The first and only hint of trouble came when a radar operator at Orly saw streaks around the DC-10's blip at 13,000 ft. Moments later the aircraft disappeared from the screen; from the location of the crash, it appears that the pilot, Captain Nejat Berkoz, 44, was attempting to land at Charles de Gaulle airport at Roissy, Europe's newest and largest, which goes into operation this week. He missed by several miles, crashing in the peaceful forest of Ermenonville, a game...
...million for cruise missiles that could be fired from either submarines or airplanes. Powered throughout its flight by a jet engine, the 15-ft.-long missile would fly up to 1,500 miles, hugging the surface to elude Soviet radar, and deliver its warhead squarely on target...
...create a lifting bubble of air similar to that on which Hovercraft ride. When fully developed in the late '70s, the creation is expected to thunder along at speeds up to 350 m.p.h. while flying only 25 to 50 feet above the water-low enough to make radar detection difficult. What is more, the huge aircraft could make two-to three-day voyages extending as far as 7,000 miles...
...States was scheduled to visit. The codeword for the payload was "corpse," and so an alert operator smelled a plot with a higher and more violent purpose and had the call traced. By the time the smugglers' plane was in the air, it was already photographed and under constant radar and photographic surveillance. Which just goes to show James's ingenuity and initiative in getting off the hook. Still, the life of a dealer had deeply affected James, the son of an unbending man who when the family used to live in the hills of North Carolina, other relatives used...
...North Vietnam today, at this moment, former peasants are watching radar screens. The bombing ended last January, but U.S. reconnaissance planes still fly over the country and the B-52's are still based in Thailand. From time to time U.S. officials threaten to resume the air war; the watchers remain alert. Across North Vietnam workmen are rebuilding bombed-out bridges, doctors are tending patients and students are attending school. And peasants--men and women who have defied the American thunder and built a new society--are plodding along behing their plows, tilling their increasingly bountiful rice fields...