Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pilot Francis Powers (TIME, May 16) and the one on Admiral Harry Felt (TIME, Jan. 6). Dick Seamon, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, has an intimate knowledge of the RB-47 flyers' procedures and perils: during World War II, after training in radar and electronics at Harvard and M.I.T., he piloted a photo-mapping PB4Y-1, dodged flak and enemy fighters from the New Hebrides to Guam...
...airbase at Brize Norton, England last July, Olmstead and McKone and their four crewmates were beginning a mission that was vital to U.S. security. Their bomb bays were crammed not with high explosives but with delicate electronic gear designed to measure the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet radar defenses. Theirs was a flight far different from that of Francis Powers. Theirs was a "ferret mission" of a sort that has been carried out for years by U.S. ships and planes patrolling the long coastline of the Russian heartland. The Navy bomber shot down over the Baltic in the spring...
Braced against the roll of his little Navy supply ship T-AKL 17, Skipper Sixto Mangual stared at the soft glow of a radarscope. In the center, a ragged splash of light reflected the "sea return," the radar echo bouncing back from the vicious waves of the gale-roiled Atlantic. Beyond the sea return-twelve miles away by the scale of the scope-a smaller blob of light pinpointed the position where Texas Tower 4,* a man-made Air Force radar island, was riding the storm. Suddenly, silently, the tower echo disappeared. Beyond the sea return there was only...
...Articulate, pipe-smoking Jerry Wiesner has tramped through North Carolina and Alabama in search of folk songs with famed Collectors John and Alan Lomax. He is also an experienced, politically adroit Government adviser on scientific matters, with a staggering list of credits: he directed development of an early-warning radar system, planned the instrumentation for the Bikini A-bomb test, helped develop the Distant Early Warning radar line and the SAGE communications system. As professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T. and director of its Research Laboratory of Electronics, Wiesner is both an administrator and a theorist...
...this situation, the press, though free from censorship, is captive to the outlook of its readers. News of a radar mistake and a bomber alert is reported, if at all, in a note on the sports page. When the ingenious Mr. Kahn writes a book listing death figures for the next war and urging us to build shelters, there is little public stir...