Word: radar
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...formation by a group of distinguished U.S. leaders of a Committee on the Present Danger. High in its ranks were Harvard's President James Bryant Conant and Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research & Development. Dr. Bush complained that while Russia strengthened its radar defenses the U.S. was busy completing television networks...
...Announced that an overlapping network of radar-warned "fighter-interceptor wings" equipped with the latest F-86 and F94 jet fighters had been set up across the U.S. to guard against surprise attacks...
When the climax comes, another electronic assistant, the Sperry A1C radar gunsight, will help the pilot hit the enemy. Jet fighters move so fast that the pilot has only a few seconds for firing, and human eyes and brains cannot be depended upon to select those seconds unfailingly. The radar gunsight (still under thick wraps) makes all the calculations automatically. It tracks the target, measuring its distance, direction and relative speed. All the pilot has to do is keep the target inside a circle of light on his windshield. When the enemy plane is in a position where it will...
...uses. The islands may be smooth enough in places for airplanes to land upon. If not, their surfaces can probably be planed into landing strips by bulldozers parachuted from aircraft. An airfield near the pole would be useful as a weather station, an emergency landing field, a site for radar or a center for air rescues in the remote Arctic. In the back of military minds was the possibility of making the islands into advanced bomber bases...
Under the Desk. About the time Hoyle and Lyttleton reached this point of their reasoning, World War II put cosmology i ice. Both young mathematicians went into war work-Lyttleton into the War Office in London as a technical adviser and Hoyle into radar development All through the blitz and the buzz-bombs Lyttleton kept publishing small, abstruse papers. Hoyle, by his own account, worked on cosmology "under the desk" like a schoolboy reading comics instead of doing his arithmetic...