Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RADAR FIGHT is brewing between Federal Aviation Agency and Air Transport Association. FAA wants weather radar on all four-engined passenger planes, but airlines, which have ordered radar on nearly all new planes, argue that it would be too expensive (up to $80,000 per plane) to equip old craft...
...real understanding of the power at their command. Their ignorance began in the industrial revolution, and has graver consequences by the year. The English university "trained its young men for administration, for the Indian Empire, for the purpose of perpetuating the culture itself, but never in any circumstances to equip them to understand the revolution or take part in it ... The academics had nothing to do with the industrial revolution; as Corrie, the old Master of Jesus College, said about trains running into Cambridge on Sunday, 'It is equally displeasing to God and to myself...
...profit was by no means confined to the poor boy who made good; it also blessed many a well-to-do heir apparent. Among those whom service helped equip for heavy jobs waiting back home: Armour's President William Wood Prince (artillery captain), Ford's Vice President Benson Ford (Air Corps captain), IBM Boss Thomas Watson Jr. (Air Corps pilot). While an aircraft-carrier deck officer in three Pacific battles, Indiana's J. Irwin Miller, 49, gained the confidence it took to build the family owned Cummins Engine Co., Inc. into the largest U.S. maker of truck...
First U.S. air-to-air missile to be tested in real combat is the Navy's Sidewinder, which was adopted by the Air Force and used to equip Chinese Nationalist Sabre jets flying out of Formosa (TIME, Oct. 6). During one air operation against the Chinese Communists, the Nationalists used Sidewinders to knock down an estimated ten Red jets while coming off unscathed themselves. The Sidewinders given to the Chinese were an early model, but their general design, with improvements, is still...
...sonic boom. Canada had worked long and hard since 1945 to build up its own jet aircraft industry, hoped to hit the big time with its swift CF-105, possibly even sell some to the U.S. Air Force. High costs and the missile age made it impossible. To equip the R.C.A.F. with Arrows would cost something like $2 billion, and the first operational models would not be in service until 1961. A better bet was to spend the money on a setup like the U.S.'s SAGE system: improved DEW-line radar, electronic computers to guide 2,000-m.p.h...