Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Almost inevitably, space science was the glamour science. The U.S. sent into orbit satellites Tiros I and Tiros II, which observed the earth's weather from above and sent back thousands of cloud-pattern pictures that are revolutionizing meteorology. The U.S.'s Courier I-B showed what can be done by a satellite packed with electronic equipment and acting as a relay station for forwarding floods of messages almost instantaneously around the curve of the earth. Echo I, the 100-ft. balloon satellite, which is still a striking naked-eye spectacle in the sky, showed the value of a large...
Willard Frank Libby, 52, sometimes seems to be a finicky, formal sort of man who wears a business suit in the laboratory, suffers a necktie in the warmest weather. But he gives himself away with his missionary zeal. To Chemist Libby, recruiting bright young newcomers to his calling is every bit as important as his own contributions. His radioactive carbon-14 dating technique brought him his well-deserved Nobel Prize; his five-year service on the Atomic Energy Commission was an invaluable bridge between the possibilities of science and the problems of politics. In Washington, Libby discovered that there...
...problem is getting good men at the salaries FAA can pay. When a plane is being brought in during bad weather, the controller is often more responsible for the plane than the pilot. But controllers start at $4,500; the top salary is only $8,950 (v. $30,408 a year for DC-8 captains...
...Radar. FAA is working to eliminate the human element almost entirely and turn traffic control over to computers, is spending $200 million a year to develop an all-weather, electronically controlled system. Devices for the new system are already being developed and tested at FAA's experimental center at Atlantic City, NJ. One of the chief projects: three-dimensional radar, which, unlike present radar that shows only distance and bearing, will also show altitude. The FAA is testing an experimental 3-D radar apparatus, designed by New York's W. L. Maxson Corp., which picks up a target...
...airliners carry weather radar, but the sets show only the proximity of storms and not other aircraft. The FAA soon hopes to have an automatic, lightweight anticollision device that would warn approaching planes, as in the New York crash. One possibility: Bendix Corp. has developed a collision-avoidance system that bounces signals both off neighboring aircraft and off the ground to determine an approaching aircraft's course, tells the pilot what evasive action to take. The Sperry Rand Corp. is developing a system that uses high-frequency radio-wave techniques to detect the proximity of another aircraft; Motorola...