Given the author’s affiliation with Stanford University’s Space Systems Development Laboratory (SSDL), this comparison can easily be done with SSDL’s primary microsatellite program, the Satellite Quick Research Testbed (SQUIRT) program.

ln normal flight, the droop snoot is straightened out as in normal aircraft. The American built XB-70 plane also had such a droop snoot for this same reason.

By the way, the birds you most often hear in old Tarzan movies are Australian kookaburras and Indian peacocks, which seems rather incongruous considering the loin-clothed one is supposedly barrelling around the African jungle.

Mr. Guirl is a native of Indiana, and his partner, Mr. H. A. Daggett, who was born in Maine, joined him at Clay City about six years ago.