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Back in the Pentagon, flustered brass described the Red gunners as lucky, hastened to explain that jets are terribly vulnerable anyway. "Hell," said one Navy man, "a kid standing at the end of the runway with a baseball bat can knock down a jet if he gets the ball into those turbine blades." But the Reds weren't using baseballs. Western military experts guessed that the U.S. planes had been hit by Soviet-designed ZPU2s-twin, 14.5 mm., heavy machine guns mounted on an armored car and operated from a fast-turning swivel seat. U.S. officials suspected that...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration are learning how to land the big jets closer to town. At Wallops Island, Va., they bring their Boeing 707 slanting out of the sky at a limping 100 m.p.h.-50 m.p.h. slower than a standard jetliner. They float over the end of the runway and touch down at only 90 m.p.h.-as slow as an old-fashioned propeller-driven...
...must run at high speed, developing too much thrust for a plane on its landing approach. But the research ship picks up no extra speed; its extra thrust is contained by big clamshell deflectors that can be controlled by the pilot. NASA's 707 drops down to the runway so slowly that its horizontal tail surfaces need special, upside-down flaps, which slant upward from the stabilizer's leading edge, to make the air flow over them properly at low speed...
Purchase of a lot ($4,200-$12,650) carries with it runway privileges for two airplanes. Smilie has also staked out space for a shopping center and a motel. Residents of Sierra Sky Park think nothing of going to lunch with friends 300 miles away. In fact, they tend to cultivate far-flung friendships-it gives them an excuse...
...HAVASU LAKE, in western Arizona, is part of a model city now abloom in the desert under the aegis of Los Angeles Saw King Robert McCulloch. McCulloch confidently expects his two-runway recreation center to be one of the principal drawing cards for the project...