February 5, 1962

February 5, 1962

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SAFETY

Cab Cites Early Liftoff in C-46f Crash

SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Instruments Evolve for Mariner Probes

By Barry Miller10 min

SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Ranger 3 Flight Stirs Reliability Question

By Evert Clark10 min

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SAFETY

Cab Cites Early Liftoff in C-46f Crash

At approximately 2202 EST, Oct. 29, 1960, an Arctic-Pacific, Inc., Super C-46F, N 1244N, crashed during takeoff from the Toledo Express Airport, Toledo, Ohio. Of the 45 passengers and 3 crew members aboard, 20 passengers and the captain and copilot were fatally injured.
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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Instruments Evolve for Mariner Probes

Pasadena, Calif.—Several families of lightweight instruments designed to gather scientific data about Venus, Mars and the environments of these planets and ultimately contribute to manned planetary and interplanetary space exploration are evolving under the Mariner program.

By Barry Miller10 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Ranger 3 Flight Stirs Reliability Question

By Evert Clark10 min

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Supersonic Airliner Noise Factor Cited

New York—Noise is emerging as the governing factor in design choice of powerplants, their integration into the airframe, operational considerations and direct operating cost estimates of the supersonic transport. Technical sessions on the problems of supersonic airliner design at the 30th annual meeting of the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences (AW Jan. 29, p. 26) emphasized this point, and underscored its corollary: For the first time in the history of aviation, a transport airplane may be designed by considerations of the noise, rather than of the traffic potential, it generates.

By David A. Anderton8 min

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Defense Delays Final Decision on Tfx

By Larry Booda7 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Study Sought on Airline-creditor Ties

Washington—Civil Aeronautics Board staff interest is rising again in the question of whether major lenders to airlines exercise indirect control—and thus whether CAB approval of loans should be required. Nearly three years ago, CAB told Congress that this problem was an urgent matter requiring additional personnel and money for a detailed study of the debtor-creditor relationship.

By Robert H. Cook7 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Asset Re-entry Vehicle Test Series Will Begin in July

Los Angeles—First in a series of seven hyper-velocity, lifting re-entry test vehicles is scheduled to be launched in July from Cape Canaveral in Air Force Systems Command’s Aeronautical Systems Division’s Project ASSET. The program is intended to provide basic data, quickly and economically, for design efforts for advanced space systems now being developed or planned for the near future, and to accelerate the art of piloted re-entry capability.

By Irving Stone7 min

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Letters

The letter to the editor from an Air Force major in the Jan. 8 issue of AVIATION WEEK, “Misplaced Laurels?” (p. 112), could have been appropriately titled “Misled Major.” I have read and reread the major’s letter in a sincere effort to determine just what could have prompted his blatant attempt to discredit one of the great pilots of all time.
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AVIONICS

Redundancy Utilized to Boost Reliability

Ithaca, N. Y.—General Electric is applying new redundant logic techniques to space and military equipment with the expectation of increasing reliability by a factor of 100:1 or more. One indication of the growing industry interest in use of redundancy to boost reliability is a two-day symposium on Redundancy Techniques for Computing Systems which will be held in Washington on Feb. 6-7.

By Philip J. Klass6 min

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MISSILE ENGINEERING

Department of Defense Restricts Nike Zeus Testing Information

Public information plan developed for the guidance of U. S. Army, Air Force and Navy during the critical development-testing phase of the Army’s Nike Zeus anti-missile missile system in firings against ICBM-booster target vehicles, scheduled to begin this summer over Pacific Missile Range, is projected to give bare information of little value, plus other details already known.
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