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...national colors fluttered aloft last week on Brazil's first aircraft carrier, the 17,000-ton Minas Gerais*, her new skipper, Captain Helio Leoncio Martins, called the ship "a powerful arm for the defense of Brazil and the Americas." While he spoke, the first of 58 pilots who will fly from the carrier's canted deck were arriving at Key West, Fla., Naval Air Station for six months' training on the twelve Grumman 52F tracker planes and six Sikorsky 555 helicopters donated by the U.S. as the Minas Gerais' air group. By May, the flattop...
...center's fleet. Soon it will have a Lockheed Electra, a Convair 880 and a Boeing 720. They will serve as flying classrooms to teach the FAA flight inspectors proper flying procedures in an effort to improve safety in the crowded air, where 11,000 planes are aloft at all times...
Somewhere in the Russian hinterland last week a giant rocket hurled aloft a five-ton spaceship containing two dogs named Pchelka (Little Bee) and Mushka (Little Fly), a quantity of other unspecified plants and animals, and myriad electronic gadgets for keeping radio tab on the passengers...
...drawings-mountaintops, battle scenes, romantic castles, lakes and seas. He was fascinated by weather; few experiences pleased him more than to be out in a small boat in a storm. "That's fine! That's fine!" he would cry every time a big wave tossed the boat aloft. He drew on foot, on horseback and on trains, was outraged when the conductor would not hold the train long enough for him to complete a sketch: "Damn the fellow. He has no feeling!" His work was championed by such men as Critic John Ruskin and Painter Sir Thomas Lawrence...
...rendered obsolete all manned aircraft by the time combat-ready B-70's go on the line in 1965. In rebuttal, airmen argue that planes always will be more accurate, reliable and flexible than missiles and that the U.S. always will need both. To keep the B70 program aloft, airmen require something like $400 million in the budget for fiscal 1962. How far and how fast to go with the controversial B-70-perhaps the last piloted bomber-will be one of the first military decisions to face the incoming Administration...