Word: radar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...roster of passenger carriers grew by 97 (to 157). The FAA offers another explanation for the rising number of near midairs: its reporting system has improved. In 1983 the FAA began installing what controllers and pilots call a "snitch" alarm system. Aircraft now move across a controller's green radar screen as a blip of light in the middle of a round white "halo" or "doughnut," representing an area that has a diameter of five miles. The aim of the controllers is to "keep green" between the doughnuts. Whenever two circles begin to intersect, indicating that two planes have violated...
...while it was being repaired, the main computer went down for nearly four minutes on Aug. 4 and for an hour on Aug. 5. A control center in Albuquerque was knocked out for 40 minutes on Nov. 6. The busy Washington center lost all its radar and computers for 20 minutes on Nov. 29. When this happens, pilots have no choice but to fall back on "see and avoid" flying practices. But that is sometimes difficult to do in today's instrument-filled "glass cockpits," which require pilots to keep their heads down much of the time. Flights are diverted...
...purely defensive, purely peaceful technology." So assured Ronald Reagan two months ago at a campaign rally, in which he compared the Strategic Defense Initiative to the development of radar. But underneath Reagan's soothing words of comfort lie the potentially disastrous realities of his Star Wars proposal...
This book is best, though, in the detail with which Hersch describes operations of the U.S. intelligence network. All over the Far East, men in super-secret listening posts are eavesdropping on Soviet fighter communications, radar signals, and even the radio chatter of Russian soldiers...
Over the Pacific, U.S. spy planes fly under radar coverage, then reappear close to the Soviet border and turn away at the last moment, listening to the Soviet radar responses...