Steve Canvon Adventure
From Comic Paae to
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Moves
Mews Area
TAKES OFT Imagination and ink turn
engineer's sketch into this dramatic draw
tog of th BX-71, or "Braille Bomber," tak
ing off-which readers of the Mail Tribune
will see shortly in the Steve Canyon ad
venture. .'.' . . . . a' '
PROFESSIONAL HELP Cartoonist Milton help in designing fictional four-man bomber
Caniff, left, asks Sid Huey, center, project to figure prominentely in one of Steve Can
engineer on Republic Aviation Corporation's yon's adventures. Huey points to details of
F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber which his version of the plane to Caniff and Lynn
it builds for. the Air Force, for professional Thomson, dressed at Poteet Canyon.
Plotting Points
On Globe Solved
Los Angeles-(Science Serv
ice )-How to plot 24 points on
the surface of a globe so that
each is as far as possible .from
all neighboring points has
been solved for the first, time.
"The best arrangement is to
make the points form the tips
of 32 equilateral triangles and
six squares on the sphere,
with one square and four tri
angles meeting at each point.
Previously the problem of
plotting points on a sphere at
the longest possible distances
from each other was solved
only for nine and 12 points
on the surface.
The 24-point solution was
reported to the American
Mathematical society meeting
here by Dr. R. M. Robinson
of the University of Califor
nia. It is not known to have
arty practical application at
this time.
Girl, 3, Spots New
Bird - a 'Daddy bird'
Keene, N.H. - Three-year-old
Mary Cloddle, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cloddle,
had a perfectly logical expla
nation for announcing "I saw
a daddy-bird." j 1
Her older brother, Ricky,
utilized the wisdom of his six
years to make it clear to the
parents. If a man she calls
"Daddy is known to every
one as "Jay then why could
n't she call a jaybird a daddy-bird?
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New York - Lt. CoL Steve
Canyon of the U.S. Air Force,
the derring-do fictional hero
of Milton Caniff's adventure
strip of the same name, has
done it again. He has found
himself in an adventure that
has moved from the comic
page to the news columns.
An old hand at making life
reflect art instead of the op
posite, Caniff this summer
plotted the sequence now ap
pearing in the Mail Tribune
about a bamber he called the
BX-71. It is nicknamed the
"Braille Bomber" "because it
feels its way to and from the
target, steered by radar while
flying just above the earth's
surface at more than 2,250
miles per hour. -
That was last summer. In
October, an Associated Press
dispatch from Fort -Worth,
Tex., disclosed that the B-58
Hustler had just done what
Caniff had dreamed up sev
eral months previously. This
supersonic bomber had made
a hedge-hopping . trip from
Texas' to' California, staying
within 500 feet of the ground
for the entire 1,400 mile trip,
enabling it to sneak under
simulated enemy radar.
Sounds Familiar
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Only difference is its rate of
speed was lower than Caniff's
fictional ship.
If it wasn't that the Air
Force has had long experi
ence with Caniff s uncanny
ability to anticipate future
'events', it's likely he'd be tak
en for being a spy.
Here's how he combined
imagination and accuracy:
When he hit upon the idea,
Caniff wasn't certain that his
proposed bomber was a sound
concept. To find out, he de
cided to visit Republic Avia
tion Corporation which makes
the F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber
on Long Island,
N.Y. . ;,
Reason for Selection
Reason for. the selection of
Republic was that its current
product is not a bomber of the
type that Caniff had in mind
and therefore there could be
no chance of an accidental
security leak of genuine mili
tary secrets about such a ship.
Basically, he wanted pro
fessional help in designing a
four-man bomber, capable of
carrying atomic bombs and
long range air-to-surface ball
istic missiles with atomic war
Homeowner Can Paint Inside
With New Odorless Paints
By HENRY J. BECHTOLD
. United Press International
New York -UPJ- You now
can paint the inside of your
house during any of the four
seasons - thanks to today's
odorless paints.
These paints eliminate the
need to open windows wide
in order to remove the old
fashioned paint smell And be
cause of the quick-drying
qualities of the modern paints
it is possible to paint in the
morning and have full usage
of the room the same after
noon. There are two types of od
orless paints available for in
terior decorating - the in
creasingly popular water
thinned latex paints, and the
solvent-thinned alkyd paints
or enamels. Both are avail
able in a wide range of col
ors. " ;
The latex paints often are
called emulsion, plastic or
rubberized, and some brands
use the name of the principal
resin, such as acrylic or vin
yL However, all the latexes
have these characteristics in
common dry in less than an
hour; odor-free; show no lap
marks; can be touched up un
noticeably; . brushes, rollers
and spray guns as .- well as
spills and splatters can be
cleaned with water.
Also of importance to the
homeowner s that latex can
be used on previously painted
or primed woodwork; serve
heads, that would have .a
range of 8,000 miles.
The final results of Caniff
and the Republic engineers
putting their imaginations to
gether is a ship powered by
four chemical turboram jet
engines which can carry a
fO.OOO pound payload and
weighs some 400,000 pounds
itself. Fictional though it may
be, it is based on sound aero
nautical concepts and design.
Caniff spent part of his
time at the plant touring the
assembly line to find out as
much as possible about, cur
rent methods of military air
craft production.. He also
made it a point to talk to the
company's "tomorrow's think
ers" those men who are
planning the aircraft of the
future. Some of this will be
reflected in future strips.
But for the present the re
sults of his visit will be ap
parent in the Dec. 20 issue1 of
The Mail Tribune when the
BX-71 will make its maiden
flight." " ' V : ' ' '
as their own primer on new
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The alkyd paints are avail
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They are tough, extremely
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Paint manufacturers rec
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