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Though his choices may consist, as Garn says, of "no good alternatives," the options previously mulled and culled sound even worse. A plan called "Sea-sitter" envisioned pinioning minimissiles on a fleet of roving seaplanes. Other proposals would have made giant molehills out of mountains: one called for sticking the...
ANIAKCHAK CALDERA. Located near the eastern end of the Aleutian island chain, the area is a geological oddity-a volcanic crater 10 kilometers (6 miles) in diameter and dotted with smaller volcanoes. Inside the crater is a remarkable blue-green lake on which seaplanes carrying sightseers can land. The more...
China is presently making do with a superannuated collection of 198 Russian and British propeller and turboprop planes. It recently bought four used British Trident jets from Pakistan, but crews to fly them are still in training. The mainland's own aircraft industry is unequipped to make commercial jets...
Died. Rear Admiral Albert C. Read, 80, commander of the first plane to fly the Atlantic; of pneumonia; in Miami. On May 8, 1919, Read and 17 other Navy flyers clambered into three wood-and-canvas seaplanes, and headed out from Rockaway, L.I., bound for Plymouth, England. Two of the...
Am plane from the lumbering Clipper seaplanes to the 1,500-m.p.h. Concorde with which the airline hopes to fly the Atlantic in 21 hours in 1970. Shy and painfully retiring as always, Lindy was nowhere to be found by the newsmen who wanted to talk to him, and the...