Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be worn and obsolete, and the limited number of B-58s would be obsolescent at best," while "for the first time in the history of American strategic airpower, no follow-on bomber is under development." Power's emergency solution: Adapt the F-lll (TFX) fighter-bomber for SAC use as a medium-range strategic bomber...
...such planes -adapted models of the familiar Boeing 707 commercial airliner-that spell each other in eight-hour, all-weather shifts. No one plane lands until another has become airborne. Dubbed "Looking Glass," the plane is manned by a crew that flies a random pattern within radar distance of SAC's Omaha headquarters. The SAC general aboard, one of 50 who regularly pull Looking Glass duty, is the AEAO (for Airborne Emergency Actions Officer). He is in charge of a group of officers and technicians maintaining instant communications with Omaha, the White House, the Pentagon, and each...
Under certain specifically detailed emergency conditions, the Looking Glass plane would become a crucial factor in U.S. strategy by operating as a relay station that would send messages from superior command stations on the ground to SAC bombers and missile-launching sites. If all or most ground commands were wiped out, the AEAO would take over the direction of a U.S. thermonuclear retaliation. Through a multiple-checked series of authentications, he would break open a locked "red box" and issue the "Go" orders to missile sites and bomber bases that would send nuclear warheads toward preselected targets. Says one AEAO...
Students at Lake Worth Junior High School near Fort Worth have for years been learning the hard way. Their school lay directly in the approach path of SAC's Carswell Air Force Base, and every day there was a 10% loss in teaching time as the B-52 jet bombers thundered over. Last week Lake Worth had a clever solution to the problem...
...stories deep, the building has 18 classrooms, all completely soundproofed. The air is changed every three minutes, and with the elimination of dirt, windows and exposed walls, maintenance costs are drastically reduced. The school, which is also tornadoproof, looks best from the air. Zooming in to land, SAC pilots see only a neatly landscaped plot beneath which 475 pupils peacefully study, full time...