Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under the command of Four-Star Air Force General Earle Partridge, is a joint U.S.-Canadian venture (Partridge's second in command is Canada's Air Marshal C. Roy Slemon) with Air Force, Army and Navy each marked out for specific assignments, e.g., the Navy for seagoing radar pickets, the Air Force for intercepting enemy bombers with aircraft and surface-to-air area defense missiles, the Army for point defense of U.S. cities and bases with its Nike system. To work at all, NORAD must function with electronic precision and supersonic speed. But in practice, hardworking "Pat" Partridge...
They frequently do just that. Items: ¶The Air Force last year cut NORAD's Air Force radar warning patrol for three months to meet cuts in its own maintenance and operation budget. ¶The Army recently decided not to man a $2 million NORAD radar station in Arizona. It also reduced the personnel of its Nike missile batteries. ¶The Navy last week pulled one of NORAD's radar picket ships off NORAD's early-warning patrol without prior notice to NORAD headquarters...
Major Johnson had already made six trial flights into the 75,000-and 85,000-ft. altitudes. This time was for keeps; the flight would be measured officially both by the instrument package in the plane and by radar and theodolite cameras tracking it from the ground. Screaming down the runway, the Starfighter lifted off at 9:40 a.m.; Johnson headed westward toward Santa Barbara, climbing steeply. At 35,000 ft. he kicked in his afterburner, turned east, still climbing. He leveled off at 45,000 ft., poured straight ahead at about 1,000 m.p.h. As he reached the instrumented...
...most promising solution to the air traffic problem, however, probably lies in SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), the air defense radar network being constructed by the Defense Department at a cost of $3 billion. When it is completed, this system reportedly will be able to detect, identify and track all aircraft over the United States. If the CAA can somehow, through cooperation with the SAGE system, place its tracking operations on a semi-automatic basis, a method of effective traffic control will become possible, and the risky "visual flight" operation may be all but eliminated...
Lodge suggested an international inspection force for the Arctic that would provide notification of flights and other significant military movements, radar monitoring of all flights, and establishment of ground-inspection posts...