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...approach and made a perfect touch down. But it was by no means a routine landing. As the plane taxied off the run way, Captain Poole got on the intercom to give his unsuspecting passengers a bit of a jolt: "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "the approach to the runway and the touchdown have been made by automatic equipment on board." It was the first time that a jetliner with farepaying passengers aboard had landed by means of a computer...
Finally, last week, the huge plane began to live up to the far-out name by which the Air Force had christened it-Valkyrie. At California's Edwards Air Force Base, North American Aviation Test Pilot Al White took the XB-70A off the runway, weighing 500,000 Ibs., the heaviest at which an aircraft has ever flown. During the 1-hr. 40-min. test, the plane set a new record for continuous supersonic flight: 74 min., at speeds ranging from Mach 1.4 (920 m.p.h.) to Mach 2.1 (1,425-m.p.h.) at a peak altitude...
Getting Some Action. Swiftly the two battalions deployed to security positions at and around Danang. Some dug in near the Marine helicopter flight line. Others pitched their two-man pup tents at the ends of Danang's 10,000-ft. runway to reinforce the inner perimeter defense. Three companies set out for the grassy hills overlooking the base, preceded by Marine engineers with a bulldozer to flatten one of the hilltops for the marines' Hawk missiles. So steep were the ridges on one of the hills that some men had to be positioned there by helicopter...
...France flight from Paris to Mexico City whose bags were 260 Ibs. overweight was, of course, a movie star. Because of her, flowers were waiting at the airport, and so was the press. Floodlights were turned on to make a patch of noon on the dark runway, and the photographers stood poised at its fringes, squinting up into the light as the first tourists filed off the plane. Then she appeared in the welcoming glare-and nobody took her picture. An awkward moment. She smiled and started down the ramp. "There she is!" cried the producer of the film...
...lead at 26 ft. 2¼ in.; the best Ter-Ovanesyan was able to manage was 26 ft. 1 in. The Russian shook his head, walked over to talk to High Jumper Valery Brumel. Somehow that seemed to give him strength, and he stalked back to the runway. Hands dangling, he began his run, slowly at first, then faster and faster. Slamming his left foot into the takeoff board, he shot forward, legs flailing. The red flag stayed down: fair jump. The measurement: 26 ft. 2¼ in. - exactly equaling Boston's best...