CIRCLING EARTH LIKE MOONS

Chronicle (Levin), 13 August 1946, Page 5

CIRCLING EARTH LIKE MOONS

Press Assn.

By Telegraph

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lleceivecl Monday, 7.0 p.m. NEW YORK, August 12. The United States Navy has in immediate prospect a pilotless aircraft capable of carrying' an atomic bomb, says the New York Times Washington correspondent. ' The Navy, reporting on the development programme of guided missiles, said these would be able to snuff out a preseribed target without help from liiiman liands and brains. The Times says the Navy's report outrivals the Army's and Airforce's previous predietions on pilotless planes and foreeasts that satellite vehicles, only a little farther in the future, will b'e circling the earth hundreds of miles up like moons. It also asserted that interplanetary travel is only a short step from the satellite vehicles. The Navy's pilotless aircraft will have a speed up to several thousand miles hourly, propelled by rocket, jam jet, pulse jet and turbo jet engines, but the eraft now being developed will rcquire long and arduous testing before being perfected. • . The beport said ihe former (ierman personic wind tunnel from Peenemunde and Kockel is now being set up at the Naval Ordnance laboratory3at Whiteoak, Maryland. This tunnel is considered the most advanced in the world and will operate in about a yeaf's time. The re])ort said anti-submarine and anti-ship missiles are being developed which will dive deep and speed imerringly to a i'ast maiumivrmg target. Of course there are many propulsion prolilems to he solved hefore these weapons are produced in final deadly form.