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...Lancaster bombers converted into tankers, and a set of gadgets which Managing Director Sir Alan Cobham, 53, pioneer refueling fan, believes have eliminated the dangers and difficulties of refueling. Among the most important is a system of electronic beacons with which the planes can find one another, even in soupiest weather...
...Atlantic, the scope is generally blank except for "clutter" from nearby waves. The captain can order full speed through the soupiest weather. Obstacles are clearly visible long before they are dangerous...
...rain a good part of the year, is a nerve-tester for ship pilots. Last week the test was easier. At seven control stations along the Mersey basin, seven navy-type radars scanned the crowding river traffic. Their electronic eyes could pierce the blackest night, the soupiest fog or rain, spotting every ship, buoy, dock or shoreline. Dock masters could warn a scuttling ferry (in appropriate nautical language) that a long, lean liner was fixing to cut her in two. They could guide a blank-blank collier through the blank-blank sandbars...
...seacoast fire-control radar" can detect individual vessels 25 miles out to sea through the soupiest nor'easter, with a five-yard margin of error at twelve miles...
...force. When ignited (by men running alongside the pipes with torches), a wall of flame roars from the jets with the noise and smoke of a forest fire. The intense heat first vaporizes the fuel in the upper (feeder) pipe, causing the smoke to subside, then burns off the soupiest...
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