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Pentagon officials maintained there was little risk of accidental intrusions into the Red homeland. Development of improved communications, navigational and radar equipment has greatly reduced the chances of U.S. supersonic jets straying over the border, they said...
...deft hand with a bridge deck and dice, and led the varsity sailing club to two straight national intercollegiate championships. Commissioned an ensign in the Navy in 1943, he applied for the Small Craft Training Center in Miami. The Navy, in its infinite wisdom, sent him to radar school instead, but Bus finally wrangled a transfer to the carrier Liscome Bay-a transfer that fell through when doctors found he had a hernia. He has no regrets: Liscome Bay was later torpedoed off the Gilbert Islands, and went down with most of her crew...
Finding Trouble. Though it sometimes leaps to premature conclusions, Aviation Week has always shown a knack for getting the news even when attempts are made to conceal it. The magazine was the first to reveal that U.S. radar had been installed in Tur key to eavesdrop on Soviet ICBM tests. The troubles of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter were first noted in its pages. The first suggestion that the Russians were installing ballistic missiles in Cuba was published by the magazine. Three months ago, it broke the news that the Soviets were shipping surface-to-surface missiles to North Viet...
...might be fun to take a trip to West Berlin through one of the air corridors in which the Russians have occasionally diverted themselves by buzzing Western planes. On the way Hughes encountered no Russians but created a minor sensation among ground personnel. "What are you?" cried the startled radar controller at the Berlin field. Hughes reluctantly returned from Europe by commercial airliner. Flying, he feels, is safer than gambling-and in the end cheaper...
...improvements along the way. Whether a pilot takes the northern route or one of the less volatile southern routes (New York-Gander-Azores-Lisbon or New York-Bermuda-Azores-Lisbon), he can get essentially the same map and weather-chart information that airline pilots have. Beyond that, there are radar checks on his progress all along the route, chiefly from nine ocean vessels on station that send out radio beacons. Canadian officials refused for years to allow single-engine planes to begin transoceanic flights from their airfields because the ensuing air-sea rescue missions were costing Canada too much time...