Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fringe of space. There it flies beyond the reach of any known U.S. production plane -and presumably any effective Russian interception. One likely reason for Air Force secrecy: at its solitary height, the U-2 might cruise anywhere unmolested, casing the distant terrain through its all-seeing, cloud-piercing radar...
...bill setting up a Federal Aviation Agency to exercise almost total control over U.S. air space, bring both military and civilian craft under strict ground control. To operate the airways, the Civil Aeronautics Administration is spending $1 billion to replace the current hodgepodge control with a semiautomatic, radar-based system. The trouble with the plan is its target date: 1963. With a lead-time of 18 months or more for complex radars, CAA is still waiting for 70% of the control equipment ordered since 1956. To be really safe, say CAA men, 85% of the 100,000 U.S. planes...
...Radar & Radio. The new airways-modernization plan envisions a network of aerial highways controlled by 100 huge radar scanners much like those at military DEW line stations. Forty such long-range (up to 200 miles) sets are scheduled to be in operation by July 1959, yet only 27 have been ordered and only one is in operation. The plan calls for 138 surveillance radars for close-in airport traffic control; only 45 are in operation now; another 16 are programed for early 1960. The plan also includes 23 precision-approach radars (ten now operating), 289 traffic-control radar beacons (none...
...nation's major airports last week, big new radar installations of spinning antennas and scanning screens were being readied for use as part of a $13 million radar network that will eventually help control air traffic around 27 major U.S. cities. On Wall Street many a brokerage house tuned in with its own radar to take a reading on the firm responsible for the network: Raytheon Manufacturing Co. of Waltham, Mass. They liked what they saw so well that Raytheon stock moved to an alltime high of $30 a share...
...equipment for the 6-52 and the 6-58. It is also manufacturing transistors, and their successor spa-cistors, for everything from field radios to satellite innards, hopes to raise its $60 million-a-year civilian business to $150 million by 1965 with such items as weather radar, tiny radar sets for pleasure boats, diathermy equipment for hospitals...