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o o o QSIXTEElf WTJTO'D (09E80V) NAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday March 8. 19S7 Sidewinder, Navy's Newest Air Missile, Blasts Enemy Aircraft 3 QLtKB ST&CKKOUSE ' Bni' Piaca Cetresrdet Chin Lake. Calif. 'U.R A crimson colored World War II Hellcat t.jthk'T roared across the Mojave Deert wasteland under a high 9',ercst rf clouds, head ing for a rendezvous with death less than 60 seconds away. Out of the clouds, screaming likes its' namesake, came a Navy delta wing Demon jet fighter. For a few moments it swallow ed up the intervening distance. Then, still a good two miles from its' prey, it Xinleashed a pencil shaped missile and banked away sharply as though no longer in terested in the affair. There was a brief streak of fire and smoke as the missile left the plane and speared like a javelin a? the fleeing drone. It moved so fast it literally vanished. Only a small ball of orange fire and an obscene wav ering shriek, marked its' passing. Deitroyedl In two blinks of an eye the ball of fire caught up with the obsolete fighter. The red plane was blotted out for a second in a puff of white smoke. There was an explosion like a sonic boom. Then, so broken and fit ted it was hardly recognizable, j described as "heat homing de- the plane fluttered to the earth in a flat spin and struck the desert with a black and orange explosion. Some 200 newsmen and tele vision cameramen assembled for the first public demonstration of the Sidewinder, the Navy's new est and most deadly air to air guided missile, were almost too stunned to applaud. It was like watching a cham pionship fight that ended in a knockout in the first minute of the first round. It was over al most before they realized what had happened. This truly terrible new weap on, named for a small but deadly desert rattlesnake, has been an operational arm of the Navy7 since last October. Like Eight Inch Gun Conceived and developed by Dr. William B. McLean, civilian techanical director of this big Navy research, development and testing center, it is nine feet long and five inches in diameter and hits its' target with the ex plosive force of an eight inch naval gun. Although the inner secrets of its weirdly inhuman electronic brain are classified, it has been Nuclear Power for Space Travel Needed, Fuel Expert Claims Chicago (U P) Dr. Vincent J. , to the moon would take about Cushing will take a dim view of space travel until nuclear power can be adapted to space ships. Cushing. an expert on propul sion, believes it would be down- right unwise to attempt a trip to the moon in a rocket ship powered by conventional fuels. O The chemical fuel available now is so restricted in terms of power that nearly all of the rocket would have to be fuel, Cushing said. "But he added: "If we could adapt nuclear power to rocket ships, space flight would be as simple as sending present day planes up to 75.000 feet." In such a ship, he said, a trip Senate Ratifies Klamath Compact Salem (U.R1 The Oregon Senate has passed unanimously a billio ratify the Klamath Riv er Basin Compact between Ore gon and California on use of waters of the basin. The measure now goes to the House. The California Legisla ture also is acting upon ratifica tion. If both Oregon and Cal ifornia ratify the compact, it then goes to Congress for approval. O The Senate also passed, with only four dissenting xotes, Sen ate bill 56 boosting the minimum salaries for school teachers. The measure now goes to the House. An additional district judge for Lane county is provided in Senate bill 179, passed by the Senate with only two dissent ing votes. Lane county now has one district jud?e and Sen. Don ald R. Husband of Eugene said the work load had become too heavy that an additional dist rict judge was needed. three and a half hours. Fusion Mora Adaptable Cushing, head of propulsion and fluid research at Armour Re search Foundation. Illinois In stitute of Technology, said there are two nuclear power processes to be considered, fission and fu sion. Although fission is being used now to power submarines, Cush ing said he doubts it would be practical for space ships because present nuclear reactors require heavy load or concrete shield ing to bottle up harmful radia tion. Cushing believes, fusion, the process used in the H bomb but as yet unharnessed in the labor atory, holds greater promise for space flight. The process pro duces energy the same way the sun does, by fusing hydrogen atoms to form helium atoms. 20 Years More Research The fusion process creates no great radiation problems, Cush ing said, but it requires "fantas tically high" temperatures. Thus, he said, engineers would have to develop a combustion chamber that would stand up to this extreme heat, and an ejec tion nozzle that would withstand the heat of the gasses shot out the rear. As Cushing envisioned it. hyd rogen and helium atoms would be squirted out the rear of the rocket to provide the forward thrust. Acknowledging the difficult ies, he nevertheless said: "If we are able to develop this process, there will be no hold ing us to Earth." When will the technological breakthrough come that will make it possible to adapt nuclear power to rocket ships? Nobody knows, but Cushing's guess is 15 to 20 years. vice operating on the same gen eral principale as the electronic eye which opens a super market door when a customer breaks its' beam. The all important pilot's point of view was voiced by Lt. Cmdr. Glenn A. Tierney, a combat vet eran of two wars, who acted as commentator for the demonstra tion. Tierney, of North Bergen, N.J.. is the boss of China Lake's guided missile training unit. He has fired more of the Sidewind ers in simulated combat than any other man. End of Dog Fight He said that the advent of of the Sidewinder virtually signals the end of the aerial "dog fight" between opposing fighters, the glamor combat which had its birth in World War I and came to its' climax in the stratospher ic struggles between the Russian built Mig 15s and the U. S. Sabrejets over Korea. "It is no longer necessary for a fighter to go in and tangle with the enemy at close range," he said. "With the Sidewinder, a subsonic fighter can easily in tercept and knock down a super sonic bomber." "A pilot with a Sidewinder is like a fighter going into the ring with a six foot reach over the other guy," he said. WTth the F9F Couger jet. the Navy's standard carrier fighter, for instance, a pilot armed with the missile can blast anything the enemy owns out of the sky. "If we had Sidewinders in Korea, it would have been a slaughter," Tierney said. Escape Impossible Once the Sidewinder scents its prey and is unleashed, the wild est evasive maneuvers of an enemy plane are fruitless. If the enemy swings into an 8 G turn, the Sidewinder auto matically cuts a 12 G turn to head him off: if the enemy climbs, the Sidewinder climbs higher and faster, if the enemy dives, the Sidewinder dives steeper and is waiting to meet him. "The Sidewinder W.U1 chase him all the way home and under the bed," Tierney said with a grin. This terrible new weapon with its' implaccable killer instincts, poses one problem, however, Tierney said. It makes the identi fication factor mighty import ant. "Before you cut loose the Sidewinder, you've got to be all fired sure that it is pointed at an enemy and not a friendly plane that looks similar. The Sidewinder makes no distinction between wing markings," Tier ney said. "If you cut one loose at your wing man by mistake, the only thing you can do is holler: 'Sam, you've got four seconds to eject'." McCarthy Shunned By Eisenhower Party Washington (U.R) Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower smil ingly held a full-dress party Tuesday night for every member of Congress but one Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. McCarthy's name was no where to be found on the of ficial guest list for the tradition al White House reception for Congress and government appnrv officials. It was the second time Mc Carthy did not make the list. He was was not invited to the last congressional reception held in 1955 the year of the Army McCarthy feud. Nor was omission of his name Tuesday night any error. Mary Jane McCaffree, Mrs. Eisenhower's secretary, referred questions about McCarthy not being invited to Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hag erty. "It's true," Hagerty said. "I have no further comment." SEVEN FLEE BLIMP FIRE Weeksville, N.C. (U.R) Sev en men escaped by leaping to safety when , fire destroyed a 250-foot blimp at the naval air facility here Tuesday night. VIA S Zj t Senator Promises To Fight Mineral Taxes Salem (U.R) Sen. Dwight Hopkins, Imbler Democrat, de clared today that he would fight House bill 319 to place "a 4 per cent severance fax on all min erals produced from soil and water in Oregon. "It seems absurd," Hopkins ssid, "that whes a prospector does find a good metal worth even up-to $100 a ton, he can't persuade a company to come to Oregon to develop it because of the power and tax situation. Mining companies will never be interested In the development of Oregon's minerals as long as they are the target for excessive tsxes." PICTURE TUBES REJUVENATES Is your picture tube dull end weak' Most picture tubes can fee restored to original brighti. at only fraction of the cost of replacement. For further information CALL Electronic Service 18. N. 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