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...dream that military stuff is made of. Last week the U.S. Navy made the most of every split second of its dream-come-true. At the instant that Dwight Eisenhower was piped over the side of the supercarrier Saratoga at the new carrier base in Mayport, Fla., two F4-D Skyray interceptors were shot off the forward steam catapults at 141 knots to prove the capability of even a dead-in-the-water carrier...
...airmen called him the "pilots' admiral" because they knew that he could do himself anything he demanded of his air groups-and he knew well the fine line between possible and impossible. Once, while his flagship Yorktown was in the Philippines area, Radford got-orders to send his F4-U Corsairs on a 1,200-mile round-trip attack on Japan. The fighters, he calculated rapidly, would have only five minutes over the target and would not have enough fuel to return if they tangled with the enemy. He signaled his dissent with a famous line: "Negative-no safety...
...aircraft manufacturers recaptured the world's speed record when a Douglas F4D jet Skyray averaged 753.4 m.p.h. over California's Salton Sea last week, cracking an eight-day-old record of 737.3 m.p.h., set by a British pilot in a Vickers Supermarine Swift F4...
...Navy's planes are the only ones that have an F preceding the identifying number (F4-U, etc.). In the Army the letter P precedes the number (P-80, etc.). In the Navy the F stands for fighter, in the A.A.F. the P for pursuit...
...Hunt Hall3*II Thurs. at 12 Hunt Hall4*I Wed. at 12 Boylston 234*II Thurs. at 10 Boylston 23 PALEONTOLOGY1a Thurs. at 11 Zool. Mus. 103 PHILOSOPHYA Wed. at 10 Emerson DB Wed. at 11 Emerson D2b* Wed. at 11 Emerson A3b Thurs. at 12 Emeron F4 Wed. at 10 Emerson F8* Wed. at 10 Emerson H8a Wed. at 3 Emerson F9 Thurs. at 11 Emerson H12 Thurs. at 10 Emerson A14 Wed. at 12 Emerson A14c Wed. at 9 Emerson H22* Wed. at 11 Emerson H26* Thurs. at 9 Emerson H20e* Thurs. 3-5 Emerson C20g...