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Designated E-4A, the $117 million Doomsday jet is a 231-ft.-long, 425-ton behemoth - the heaviest flying machine anywhere. It is a converted Boeing 747 that bulges and bristles with a mind-stunning array of electronic gadgetry designed to defend the plane and prevent interference with communications. It is also loaded with an equally dazzling array of high-and low-frequency communications devices. Capable of staying aloft for 72 hours, the plane can roam at low or very high altitudes, up to more than 45,000 ft. To keep in touch with U.S. submarines, the craft can unreel...
...with new ways to utilize holography. But it was not until about a year ago that he and his colleagues-Maurice Halioua, Venugopal Srinivasan and Raghupathy Sarma-hit upon their potentially revolutionary process. Explains Stroke: "We realized that a crystal, in which the atoms are arranged in a repeating array, can be made to produce a sort of hologram, a three-dimensional display of data. What we've figured out is a way of viewing...
...Britain's Richard Rogers. In the midst of Beaubourg's crumbling brick and mortar, they proceeded to construct what they called a "living urban machine." They planned a six-story building to be formed literally inside out -structural supports on the outside, along with a formidable array of ducts, gantries, movable mezzanines and color-coded pipes for heating, electricity, air conditioning and fire control. Attached to one external facade is a huge escalator with transparent walls, illustrating Rogers' description of the center as a "really easy to understand Meccano machine." Inside is a series of vast lofts...
Beyond the glass-walled main halls is a vast array of unique aircraft, satellites, rockets and other displays. Howard Hughes' H-1 airplane, designed in the 1930s, is the centerpiece of the flight-technology exhibit. In aerodynamic terms, says Collins' deputy Mel Zisfein, "the H-l is the most beautiful aircraft we have." In 1935 the plane flew at a then record speed of 352 m.p.h. In its day, it was at least a decade ahead of the state of the art of aerodynamics with its smooth, flush-riveted body. With his characteristic attention to detail, Hughes designed...
...much of a challenge to sing as to hear. In The Slipper and the Rose, the melodies slosh around lyrics that have largely to do with the frustrations of love and royalty. The Prince (Richard Chamberlain) bellyaches tunefully about the difficulty of finding a loved one from amongst the array of regal dogs put forward by his father the King (Michael Hordern). These complaints absorb rather more time than they should, and result, directly or indirectly, in several dance numbers of singular clumsiness. The dancers-presumably professionals-look like nothing so much as the members of a Little League team...