European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes air Force May trim some tactical wings Jef of the 1990s will be super but of super Price Washington not the air Force might have to shrink the size of its fighter plane forces to pay for its super plane or the the advanced tactical according to a congressional the released was done by the congressional budget it said that it would be almost impossible to maintain the current 36wing Force in the next Century let along expand it if the air Force experiences the same kind of Cost growth As in earlier fighter plane pro a tactical air Wing includes 72 combat planes and 28 the study comes As the air Force approaches its first major decisions about the design of the new the air Force envisions the advanced tactical fighter As a Long Range supersonic wonder plane to begin service in the mid it has requested million in the 1986 budget to expand research and development of the which the air Force sees As eventually becoming the mainstay of its fighter among the innovations potential manufacturers have been asked to consider in submitting designs Are voice activated controls so pilots could operate their weapons without removing their hands from the con technology that would make the plane less visible to enemy radar and an internal oxygen generating system so that the plane could operate in environments contaminated by nuclear fallout or biological Wear the air at a briefing in estimated that its new plane would Cost million in 198s compared with million for the plane it would the according to the study by the congressional budget new fighter planes typically Cost two or three times More than their the study suggested that Congress consider the unusual step of putting a limit on Cost of the new by the Lime the at could have a significant Impact on the Many Funda mental decisions that dictate future costs would have already been made and the options available for savings would be Lim the report an aide to Ted who requested the said the proposed fighter was an example of the military tendency to demand extraordinary capabilities that drive up the Cost of weapons at the expense of chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee on has scheduled a hearing next month to examine the Price of fighter critics have said some of the enhance ments the service demands Are unnecessary and make the planes More difficult to main Tain in the Stevens Sean said the budget office analysis is probably right about reducing fighter forces unless the air Force was willing to propose cuts in other costly such As its nuclear bomb ers or the planned c17 transport the Reagan administration has said that it plans to expand the air Force to 40 Tacti Cal fighter wings from the administration had initially planned to achieve that goal by the fiscal year which starts but the deadline has slipped to 1991 As the procurement of fighter planes slowed and the Cost the budget office study described As unrealistic the air forces predictions that it could buy the new plane while continuing to expand toward its goal of 40 fighter if the new fighter costs twice As much As the the budget office the air Force would have to Cut Back to 29 tactical fighter the alternative would be continued Sharp increases in the air Force which the report said seemed unlikely to be supersonic subway is no Crackpot prof says a scientists fired a pingpong Ball through a tube in the blink of an Eye thursday and claimed that the same principle could Send a subway train froth new York to los an Geles in about 21 this is not of Crackpot professor Frank Davidson of the Massachusetts Institute of technology he said Engi neers now have the expertise to build such a using a system of vacuum it would be the most advanced transportation system in the said head of mits Macro engineering re search he demonstrated the concept thursday in Boston to european and Japan Nese experts attending an International con Ference on tunnelling and underground the on mits athletic took just a couple of what could be the worlds fastest pingpong Ball was hurtled through a 950foot plastic the idea uses electromagnetism within a vacuum to propel an object through a Davidson said the idea was put Forward by Robert an Engineer for Litton industries in Pacific As Early As Salter mapped out a global subway system that could carry cars in underground vacuum tubes from new York to Europe via the soviet Union in just 54 under Salters the cars would be Given an electromagnetic boost that would propel them through underground tunnels at speeds Well above the Speed of about 750 Miles per hour at sea with out air in the the cars continue to coast at High Speed with nothing to slow them a photo professor Frank Davidson adjusts Ultra fast train equipment at we wanted to show the conference peo ple who go Over and see this thing work that this int futurism or some crazy it can really said who sponsored the experts have also been discussing improved tunnelling while the initial investment to build such a vacuum system would be maintenance costs would be very Low because no fuel is required to Power the Salter said in an to demonstrate the idea using the Ping Pong Davidson commissioned Tom an Engineer for digital equip ment from to build a with a budget of Stockebrand fashioned a 950foot tube of 2inch plastic using a Light Gas he shot a burst of helium to launch the pingpong Ball through the in Stockebrand clocked the synth tic filled balls at up to 405 meters per Sec or about Mph almost As fas As a speeding he in order to create a comfortable Environ ment for a train would have to accelerate much More taking 17 Miles to reach speeds of that he Stockebrand says the concept is generations its exactly the Way a satellite you use a rocket to get it into space then i1 goes along All by itself without any he anybody in engineering knows it will it Doest prove it just demonstrates that a pingpong Ball will go a Long Way in a vacuum and so will a 4 indicted on phone porno charges Salt Lake City a in the first federa pros Elution of its a 23count indictment has been re turned charging a new York corporation and four individuals with running a pornographic Telephone service dialled by some Utah the indictments charged Carlin communications Carl Ira Kevin Goodman and Samantha All of new York with interstate transportation of obscene a spokeswoman for Carlin communications referred questions about the indictment to the firms who were not available for comment attorney Brent in announcing the grand jury said this is the first Federal prosecution involving so called dial porn convictions in this Case would Challenge the phone sex Industry which has spread across the country during the past two the indictments said that during Utah children Between the Ages of 10 and 16 heard a prerecorded Tele phone message containing explicit sexual accompanying exhibits included transcriptions of some of the the effect of such messages upon Young people who might tend to Model their behaviour on them is a serious Ward such whether in magazines or phone May tend to condition Young indeed to associate sexual arousal with the abuse and degradation of or with violence or Ward said that although All of the alleged victims in the indictment were the charges could have been brought by adult callers of the he said the All from the Salt Lake had agreed to testify when the Case comes to he said the number of children was less than since some made More than one Telephone Ward refused to disclose How verbatim transcripts of the messages were obtained in each but he said the children were not asked by authorities to place the a Bill signed into Law by president Reagan on declared illegal any commercial phone service Fea Turing obscene or indecent language if it was available to Ward said that was not the Law under which the indictments were issued because the incidents occurred before it was the applicable Law is an older one which has been used to prosecute cases of Telephone a he