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...Sullivan. A more serious name game is being conducted in France, where an unusual set of laws encourages name changes for people whose surnames have unpleasant connotations. World's story tells how the system works. Science, meanwhile, reports on Air Force plans to develop a remote-controlled robot airplane that may one day fly actual combat missions...
...interceptor aircraft but manage to outmaneuver them. Finally, the minibombers reach their target and unload their explosives with deadly accuracy. Several enemy surface-to-air missiles score hits on the raiders, but not a single pilot is killed, lost or captured. Reason: the mission has been flown entirely by robot aircraft, guided by ground controllers hundreds of miles away...
...remotecontrolled aircraft] for selected missions." Presumably, McLucas was referring to Southeast Asia, the only place where U.S. planes are currently making strikes. His words only hinted at what the Armed Forces Journal calls "the hottest idea" currently being discussed by Pentagon strategists: the creation of a force of flying robots that could ultimately revolutionize aerial and indeed all forms of warfare. Some enthusiastic military thinkers are convinced that robot planes may have even greater impact on strategy than the atomic bomb...
This year the Air Force is spending some $100 million on studies, development and production of the robot aircraft. Called RPVs (Remotely Piloted Vehicles), they can be used for electronic jamming and intelligence missions, reconnaissance flights, bombing and in the distant future even air-to-air combat. Under separate $300,000 contracts, two major drone manufacturers-Teledyne Ryan and Northrop Corp.-recently completed preliminary studies to determine how the Defense Department could create and utilize a robot air force. By the end of the 1970s, in the opinion of some weapons planners, the U.S. might well have more robot bombers...
...Robot. Interested only in his game, he abruptly left Erasmus Hall High School in his junior year, ending an academic career marked largely by lack of interest and poor