Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force has firmly programed four Titan squadrons of nine birds each, will start building the first of the four new Titan hard bases soon after the first of the year. Base construction near existing Air Force installations: $50 million per squadron. Titan development costs : $1 billion to date. Target date for an operational Titan...
When the pilot starts his attack on an enemy airplane, the Sidewinder tells him by a buzzing signal when it "sees" an object that it can home on. When the target is close enough, the pilot presses a button. The Sidewinder fires and is thereafter on its own, pursuing the target relentlessly. Its range is up to 20,000 ft., depending on many factors, including direction, altitude and speed of both airplanes. Frequently a Sidewinder gets in a jet's wake and flies right up the tailpipe before it explodes...
However this may be, there is no one who does not regard the new situation as regrettable. Athletic Director Tom Bolles has been the target of some unfair blame in this connection in local "jock" circles. Bolles is as sorry as anyone about things; but he has simply had to find some way of getting along with less money...
...skies. Trained in U.S. tactics, the Nationalists fly in tight pairs and foursomes, allowing them to jump single Red stragglers with impunity. Despite official reticence, there are reliable reports that the U.S. has equipped some Nationalist planes with Sidewinders-a deadly, heat-seeking missile that guides itself to its target by seeking out the heat produced by a plane's jet blast. The Chinese Reds have no answer to the Sidewinder...
...Finance Minister Donald Fleming for a globe-girdling communication system linking virtually every Commonwealth land. Stretching from Britain across the Atlantic to Canada and on to New Zealand, Australia, India, Pakistan and Africa, the coaxial cable will join all nations by telephone for the first time. Cost: $246 million. Target date...