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...airfield for a briefcase, it took the messenger 90 minutes to break his way through the Communist guards. That night, when Joy and his fellow delegates got back to Munsan, the admiral looked worn and tired, was so preoccupied that he almost walked into the whirring tail rotor of his helicopter...
...million in military orders. Killers have been flying in Korea since January. Hiller has also produced an air flivver, a 356-lb., jet-propelled "Hornet" which he says he can sell for $2.500 in quantity production. But the Hornet, powered by two ramjet engines on the tips of the rotor is limited in range (only 50 miles with two passengers), is still a long way from the commercial production line and popular sale...
...Korea, to command the IX Corps engaged on the bloody central front below the 38th parallel. Last week Bryant Moore flew over the front in a helicopter. Above the Han River, near Yoju, he told his pilot to go down for a closer look. The plane's rotor hit a cable. It crashed...
...Dewey looked a television camera in the eye one afternoon this week and quietly set 1952 Republican presidential preliminaries spinning like a helicopter rotor. Announcing with a studied choice of words that he was out of the race for the presidency in 1952, he went on to make a bigger Page One story: Tom Dewey was for General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...during construction of the atom bomb) has made the public suspicious of all official denials. What sort of new, fantastic wonders may be concealed behind the denials? Modern air engines (turbojets, ramjets, rockets) are powerful enough to make almost anything fly. Disc-shaped helicopters with ramjets on their rotor edges are not impossible. They are not midget-manned space ships but their test flights might have provided a base for flying saucer reports...