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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."
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