Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plastic, Cardboard & Bamboo. In ten years the famed domes of Bucky Fuller have covered more square feet of the earth than any other single kind of shelter. U.S. Marines have lived and worked in them from Antarctica to Okinawa. Beneath them, radar antennas turn tirelessly along the 4,500 miles of the DEW line, which guards the North American continent against surprise attack. For eight years, the U.S. has been using Fuller domes to house its exhibits at global trade fairs; they have represented America in Warsaw, Casablanca, Istanbul, Kabul, Tunis, Lima, New Delhi, Accra, Bangkok, Tokyo, Osaka. The Russians...
Clear air turbulence often occurs where two air masses, moving in opposite directions, grind together. Unlike storm fronts, which present a large, moist target for regular storm-tracking radars, this abrupt change of wind direction, or "wind shear," usually goes unremarked by electronics. Last year RCA technicians tracking swift Army missiles on ultrahigh-frequency (above 5,000 megacycles) C-band radar noticed that they were receiving considerable "backscatter"-unexpected, and apparently unexplainable, echoes-during a clear-sky exercise. They wondered if they were on the track...
...cooperation with U.S. Army meteorologists at Fort Monmouth, N.J., they began watching on C-band while balloons climbed through regions of clear air turbulence and reported by radio what was happening to them. Radar readings matched the balloon reports...
...adding a low-noise amplifier to their radar, RCA engineers discovered that they could track CAT even better; they followed its path with a clear, rapidly wiggling line on their radarscopes. Last week RCA had two modified C-band sets at work-one in Moorestown, N.J., and another on the DAMP (for Downrange Anti-Missile Measurement Program) ship in the South Atlantic. Once they are certain they have cornered CAT, avoiding its dangerous attack will be a simple matter for the careful pilot...
...scene that seems likely to overtake it soon, Goodyear has looked for its challenges elsewhere. With 98,000 employees-one of the largest work forces in the nation-it now turns out more than 30,000 products, from myriad rubber goods to such unexpected items as airplane brakes, radar systems, missile liners and plastic film used to package anything from oleomargarine to cigars. As if this were not enough, the Pentagon this week will take the wraps off an unusual, top-secret new missile developed by Goodyear (though rubber plays only a small part in it) under a $200 million...