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...reach altitudes over 90,000 ft. with electronic gear to spy out defenses from far away, plus equipment to collect airborne radioactivity from Soviet nuclear tests. But the crowded U-2 carries few sophisticated navigational aids, and, to complicate the pilot's task, the plane, because of its gliderlike design, is easily blown off course. These factors forced the Air Force pilot to veer over Sakhalin...
...time, he was collecting air samples and trying to get an electronic reading on the heavy Soviet defenses on the island. As a result of the Sakhalin overflight, the U.S. is considering such precautionary steps as increasing the U2's navigational gear and limiting flights to good weather to avoid chances of error. But there are no plans to ground the U-2 altogether-its probing flights are considered vital to U.S. security...
Mostly at night, and mostly with their own hands, the Russians unloaded sensitive electronic gear and crates shaped as though they might contain missiles...
Four miles down the red clay road, Morfett discovered a second bivouac, "swarming with thousands of Russians. Some were dressed in physical-training gear and were doing calisthenics. Others wore greenish fatigues. Two teams were playing volley ball." Between neat rows of dun-colored tents, Morfett caught glimpses of field kitchens and chow lines, and beyond sat "military vehicles-lorries, trucks with mobile radar units, armored cars. Some of the trucks still bore Russian-language lettering." Ringing the camp were Cuban soldiers manning freshly dug anti-aircraft emplacements...
...Puffin's maiden flight last fall, Wimpenny's legs churned bicycle pedals that turned both the main landing-gear wheel and the gft. propeller attached to the plane's tail. Puffin stayed aloft for less than a minute. Not until spring did Wimpenny manage a 993-yd. flight, and even then his aircraft could not make the required figure-eight turns. Said Wimpenny last week as he waited for calm weather so that he could try again: "We can now turn Puffin right 'round...