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The article provides information on the Transition Phase project undertaken by the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics. Scheduled for completion in 1953, the Transition Phase has already provided U.S. pilots with navigational devices including low-frequency radio ranges and high-frequency Omniranges to complement distance-measuring equipment (DME). The system also includes traffic and landing guides using radar-directed and ground-controlled approach (GCA).

The article features the products created by Raytheon Manufacturing Co., a defense systems company from the U.S. The Microtherm is a machine which uses radar waves to apply heat to sprains, sore muscles, infected sinuses, and the like. The U.S. Navy has also made use of Raytheon's reflection plotter, which enables navigators to keep track on a screen of all nearby vessels. Another product is the QK245 tube which stores a television picture for as long as a week and has the ability to replay it.

The article discusses the condition of aircraft navigation. It highlights the Air Force radar operator at Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador who was watching bright blips drifting across his radarscope as he traced the track of airplanes approaching from Europe. It presents the two most important electronic gadgets that were designed to give the navigator a hand including the Very High-Frequency Omni-Rango (VOR) and the Long-Range Navigation (LORAN).

The article offers news briefs related to electrical equipment manufacturing in the U.S. to be used on space works. Westinghouse Electric Corp. brought its nuclear reactor prowess to be used on Nerva, the first atomic rocket, and Snap, an atomic-generated power for satellites. Microwave Associates has manufactured microwave components for aerospace computers and radars. Collins Radio Co. has made deep-space tracking systems for weather satellites.

The article mentions the anniversary of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which has been in business for 100 years.

The article reports on the success of radar astronomers Richard M. Goldstein and Shalhav Zohar of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the U.S. to map the planet Venus. It states that the astronomers have used 17 radar probes along with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) dish antenna, to generate the map which showed three blotches of extremely rough terrain in the planet. Furthermore, the findings of Goldstein and Zohar were later expanded by other scientists.

The article offers information on the scientific study made by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory headed by physicist Irwin Shapiro to test the validity of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. The team, using Haystack radar antenna, observed signals and orbits of Mercury and Earth during their shifted movement from the sun last week. Test results ended with the theory's still uncertainty.

The article discusses the mission of the U.S. Ship Pueblo which is one of the electronic intelligence (ELINT) fleets of the U.S. Navy. It states that Pueblo was intended as a counterforce the large ELINT fleets of Russia in the international waters off China, Korea and the Soviet Union. It mentions that ELINT fleets collect data related to the behavior of foreign submarines including engine noises, turbulence and magnetic fields generated by each submarine.

The article offers information on high-frequency radio waves or other known as the radio waves. It conveys television signals through the skies and link long-distance telephone systems and bounce off high-flying aircraft. It mentions the current and future capability of microwave technology and its applications as considered by 215 scientists who met at Stanford University. These can be used for heating, killing of microorganisms and for transmitting power as it generates current.

The article focuses on the radar signature analysis (RSA), a technique used by the U.S. Air Force scientists in detecting foreign satellites. It says that the RSA enabled scientists to reconstruct the features of a satellite from a foreign nation, wherein radar pulse patterns were being examined. Meanwhile, through the refinement of the technique and equipment of RSA, analysts were able to make more advanced determinations regarding the intercontinental ballistic missiles and Soviet spacecraft.

The article features the efforts of James Campbell, project manager of Northrop, to help pilots navigate safely and find targets in the U.S. Campbell borrowed the technique used by radio astronomers when studying planets and the sun. Campbell and team tuned in the faint thermal radio waves emitted by a natural body. They developed the microwave radiometry that make pilots less vulnerable to enemy than radar and less expensive compared to inertial navigational systems.

The article evaluates the Skysweeper antiaircraft gun from Sperry Gyroscope Co.

The article reports on the new one million dollar airport control tower at the New York International Airport in Idlewind, New York that was inaugurated by the New York Port Authority in mid-September 1952. The new tower features the airport surface detection equipment (A.S.D.E.), which allows the monitoring of activities of the entire 4,900-acre airport. The other electronic equipment installed at the airport include six radarscopes, radio receivers and transmitters.

The article focuses on the inception of the device Radar Sentry which gives early warning of radar traps in the U.S. It states that the device warns by giving out a cheery burble that turns to a squeak when the radar zone is entered. It notes that highway patrols in some cities have banned Radar Sentry, arguing that it is more appropriate to educate the public in the advisability of obeying the speed limits instead of selling them devices which would encourage them to disobey rules.

The article offers information on an experiment by physicist Roger M. Gallet and professor Henry G. Booker involving the bending of radar signals beams. The experiment revealed that the skies were full of radar pipes, clusters of electrons, used to bounce radar signals. Furthermore, it offers details on the experiment and mentions several practical applications of their theory, including the study of solar eruptions, long-range missile surveillance, and jam-proof, long-distance communications.

The article discusses how countermeasures are done, based on the story of countermeasures expert Philip J. Klass. It states that the best shield from interceptors and missiles is the countermeasures expert who fights with electronic bullets. It says that the initial step is to learn the equipment of the enemy through ferret planes and submarines. It adds that electronic countermeasures have become so crucial that several bombers carry only electronic equipment.

The article focuses on the efforts of Columbia scientists and Air Force's Air Research and Development Command for the development of the effectiveness of radar system through signal identification. It states that the innovation of Columbia, South Carolina is the fundamental problem of radar which is the process in amplifying the echo of electromagnetic wave. It mentions that the new signal technique is the omnirange digital radar (ORDIR) which multiplies the top range of radar system.

The article offers information on some of the incidents which happened due to electronic pollution caused by electronic gadgets and devices around the globe. It discusses about an outburst of strange signals at Manned Spacecraft Center which begins disrupting communications with an orbiting Gemini spaceship. It informs a motorcyclist with an electrically operated prosthetic arm passed near high-tension lines was caught the electric energy and lost his grip on the handlebar and fell down badly on the ground. It reports that the Bell Labs scientists in New Jersey detected that background radiation are the microwave emissions from deep space which were considered as the remnants of the big bang theory.

The article reports on the new electronic countermeasure (ECM) devices being offered to Israel by the U.S. as the Israel's air force is finding it difficult to tackle the new advanced SA-2 missiles used by Egypt against Israel's air force fighter planes.

The article describes an underwater radar invented by engineer Wayne M. Ross. The radar allows him to navigate in dense fog because its signals bounces back from shoals and shore lines. He demonstrated his underwater radar to the sonar experts of the U.S. Navy while traveling the Lake Washington ship canal and Lake Union in August 1951. Ross created that radar using spare parts and equipment he found at Intervox Corp.

The article reports on the partnership forged by the U.S. Air Force with William P. Lear of Lear Inc. in mid-December 1950 for the improvement of the Air Force's jet fighters to reduce pilot fatigue when engaged in combat. Lear has developed the F-5 autopilot that could ease the job of the pilot in flying the aircraft. It also cites the Sperry A1C radar gunsight that will assist the pilot to hit the enemy.