Jul 4 1970
From The Space Library
LeRC announced F-102 supersonic all-weather fighter-interceptor obtained from Bradley Air National Guard Base at Windsor Locks, Conn., would be used as chase aircraft to observe research flights by LeRC's F-106 modified USAF jet. Flights would test advanced exhaust nozzles in under-wing nacelles. (LeRC Release 70-30)
New York State Attorney-General Louis J. Lefkowitz had filed suit against 58 domestic and foreign airlines using John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia Airports to require improved noise abatement devices on jet aircraft, Washington Post said. (W Post, 7/4/70, A4)
Tass reported 15-kg (33-lb) meteorite had crashed into street in Ukrainian city of Yagotin. Kiev Univ. meteorologists had determined object was comet. (UPI, W Star, 7/5/70)
Otto Hirschler, last U.S. Army employee among 118 German V-2 rocket experts brought to U.S. by Dr. Wernher von Braun, had lost his $25 000-a-year job as electronics expert with Army Missile Command in USA personnel cutback, Reuters reported. Most of other German rocket experts had transferred to NASA. (NYT, 7/5/ 70,2)
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