Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College Observatory will build and operate an extensive radar system to study meteors, Gerald S. Hawkins of the Observatory announced yesterday in Columbus, Ohio...
...million-watt transmitter will bounce radar waves off meteors to a series of six radar receivers spaced seven miles apart, and will record data concerning even meteors 500 times too small for the human...
...fighter the transistors for radar and navigation aids cost ten times as much as vacuum tubes doing the same job, but the mighty mites do not require cooling, as do the tubes. This saves some $50,000, the cost of addkional power plant and airplane structure to carry the cooling apparatus, as well as cutting the weight of the plane...
While waiting for the new hearing, Dahl went back to Canada and got a job with a Quebec bush airline, flying supplies to the Arctic radar sites. At Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island last week, the owner of a beat-up DC-3 propositioned him to ferry the plane with two passengers to the mainland. The aircraft had no operational radio equipment, but it was flyable-and bush pilots earn their extra dollars by taking risks. Dahl took the job and was only minutes away from his destination when the old bucket gave up the battle and went down...
...estimates are that it can top 1,000 m.p.h. with its Pratt & Whitney J57 engine and afterburner going full blast. The F-100 can fly and fight effectively at 50,000 ft. (10,000 ft. higher than the F-86), and packs an array of 2.75-in. rockets and radar-sighted 20-mm. cannon which fire so fast a burst sounds like the high toot of a diesel locomotive. Cost of an F-100: $640,000, nearly three times more than...