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...Force CF-104 jets have been destroyed in the past two years by collisions with birds, government-sponsored scientists have devised a new forecasting system that may enable pilots to detour around flocks of birds, much as they now avoid thunderstorms. With the aid of biologists, meteorologists and radar experts, Canada's Associate Committee on Bird Hazards to Aircraft last year converted the R.C.A.F. base at Cold Lake, Alta., into an electronic bird-watching station...
Tail-Wind Fliers. With a Polaroid-backed camera set up in front of a 50-mile-range radar scanner, the scientists shot a succession of twelve-minute time exposures. As a result, the bird echoes-which normally appear as indistinct dots on the radar screen-formed easily discernible lines on the film that enabled experts to determine the approximate density and direction of bird concentrations. Meteorologists and biologists were then able to predict the location of the flock for the following few hours and warn pilots of its presence. "The predictions are based on weather and migration patterns," explains Engineer...
Naked down Piccadilly. As usual, everything happened to Vanessa first. Offered a part in Morgan!, she decided to take a stab at pictures. The public got the point all right. To Vanessa's amazement, millions acclaimed her as the most exciting thing the British had produced since radar. Director Antonioni, casting for a British actress to play in Blow-Up, had heard about Vanessa. "I had not met her before," he recalls, "but I looked at stacks of her photos and concluded that she was the one I wanted. But I didn't know if she really would accept...
...NAVAL BOMBARDMENT. Until last week the U.S. Seventh Fleet, patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin, was authorized to fire only on shore batteries that fired first on them or on radar stations tracking U.S. ships for targeting purposes. Other coastal targets-roads, trucks, trains, SAM missile sites-have been taken care of by the fleet's fighter-bombers, whose activity is drastically curtailed during the monsoon month of March. Last week Navy guns attacked those North Vietnamese targets as well. The guided-missile destroyer U.S.S. Joseph Strauss opened up with 5-in. guns that lob 54-lb. shells from...
Within the past two years, however, radar observations of Mercury's surface have disproved the theory. Instead of revolving once on its axis during the 88 days it takes the planet to complete one solar orbit-as it would have to do to present the same face to the sun-Mercury was found to rotate once every 59 days. This would mean that to a Mercury man-if there were one who could stand its temperatures (as high as 790° F.)-the sun would seem to move slowly across the sky, providing daylight for about 88 days. Then...