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Research Professor of Astronomy and History of Science Owen Gingerich said he remembered Hawkins from his work at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatories, where Hawkins was the scientist in charge of the Harvard Radio Meteor Project. Hawkins was “looking for radar echoes off the meteors,” to ascertain their height and velocity and thus be able to find meteor showers in the daytime...
...Blood then took the stick, punched it forward and dove us to 1,000 ft, where he activated the TF (terrain-following) radar program. He instructed me to take control again, but to only gently guide the aircraft's direction and to "let the plane fly itself." True to its name, the program maintained a constant altitude, rising when we crossed mountains and dipping when we were over valleys. It was easy to imagine the value of such technology when flying low over a foreign land during conditions of poor visibility...
...after spending three years as a flight instructor and a year in the radar room on a carrier in the Pacific, he charted a different course...
...denounce their faith under threat of imprisonment. And there is nothing merry about the Hmong women and children trapped in the mountains, starving, shot at and dying in droves. Most of this brutality passes unnoticed or uncommented upon by Western governments, because Laos does not register on their radar. It is economically insignificant, and there is no charismatic opposition figure, like Suu Kyi, to galvanize outrage overseas. Foreign aid is doled out regularly to Vientiane with no strings attached. In any event, Laos seems immune to outside pressure, not least because its officials maintain a Hermetic existence. "The leaders rarely...
...after spending three years as a flight instructor and a year in the radar room on a carrier in the Pacific, he charted a different course...