Mar 6 1966
From The Space Library
USAF announced it was designing an expandable sidewall folding aircraft tire which would deflate after aircraft had taken off, and inflate before landing. New tire concept, being developed by B. F. Goodrich Co. for AFSC’s Flight Dynamics Laboratory, would give large aircraft better. ground flotation capability through increased contact between tire and ground, making rough field landings easier, and permitting control of tire pressure. ‘‘(AFSC Release 197.65)’’
USAF awarded Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., $46,000 contract to continue studying methods of eliminating six-minute communications blackout caused when friction of the atmosphere envelops reentering spacecraft in a ball of hot, electrically charged gases. Dr. Ronald Row, Sylvania Electronic Systems Applied Research Laboratory, told the New York Times in a telephone interview of the development of a device to simulate the flow of charged gases around typical spacecraft antenna. He said Sylvania was considering shortening pulses of signals so they could penetrate gases or covering antennas with plastic or ceramic shrouds that would shield them from gases and heat but still permit radio signals to penetrate. ‘‘(Wilford, NYT, 3/7/66, 19)’’
During week of March 6: Possibility that residents of communities afflicted by jet noise might develop psychotic symptoms because their dreams were interrupted at night was suggested by Dr. Julius Buchwald, psychiatrist, and Dr. Howard M. Bogard, psychologist, at a hearing held by New York State Assembly’s Mental Hygiene Committee. Dr. Buchwald said that everybody dreams at least five times a night. If a person is awakened and prevented from having his dreams, psychotic symptoms from mild to “more severe” could occur, including paranoidal delusions, psychoses, hallucinations, and suicidal and homicidal impulses. Dr. Bogard said persons prevented from dreaming would “tend toward true psychoses.” He urged study of whether residents near airports ‘‘lose out on dream time,” whether such communities become “disoriented” by people leaving, and whether family life is disrupted because of interruptions of ordinary communications. (Hudson, NYT, 3/13/66,66)
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