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...Hazards Aloft. When a helicopter broadcaster spots unusual activity below, he stops directing traffic and starts gathering news. Last spring Milwaukee's Burany heard a police report that a car had been stolen. He spotted the car below, tailed the thief after he had abandoned it, finally guided the police to him. "There just wasn't any place for him to hide," says Burany. Major Bruce Payne of Los Angeles' KGIL helped police pursue a herd of escaped horses that were galloping through suburban Burbank...
...judges, including a woman parachutist, the pilot of the Goodyear blimp, a senior researcher of Princeton's aerodynamics laboratory, and the owner of Manhattan's Go Fly A Kite store. Using stop watches, tape measures and esthetic expertise, the judges picked winners in four different categories: duration aloft, distance flown, aerobatics and origami (the ancient Japanese art of paper folding...
...Flight Operations: "After the canned man and the monkey flights, we found that by adding a man, you've added a tremendous tool. We now have man in the loop-and that's made the difference." Without a man on board a spacecraft, there is no judgment aloft, no freedom of choice, no chance to take advantage of unforeseen opportunities, less chance than ever of getting past unforeseen trouble. Ranger's pictures of the moon, spectacular though they were, contain only 500,000 "bits" of information; the human eye with one glance takes in 100 million "bits...
Anguish mixed with joy last night in Quincy's dining room-turned-airstrip as planes whooshed, wafted, and Watusied through the air in the three categories of competition, distance flown, duration aloft, and acrobatics...
...long as Grissom, White and Chaffee could take it, an "open-end" mission that marked a bold departure from the rigidly limited space flights of the past. It was to be essentially an engineering flight, a manned shakedown for the Apollo systems, which had already twice been fired aloft without anyone aboard. If things went well, Apollo 204 would lead to two other manned flights later this year, and then, possibly as early as 1968, to fulfillment of man's ancient vision of a landing on the moon...