February 23, 1981

February 23, 1981

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Safety

Aeromexico Dc-10 Incident Investigated

Aviation Week Pilot Report

Dc-9-80 Nears Category 3 Certification

By Robert R. Ropelewski15 min

Avionics

Darpa Funds Microcircuitry Projects

By Benjamin M. Elson12 min

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Safety

Aeromexico Dc-10 Incident Investigated

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Aviation Week Pilot Report

Dc-9-80 Nears Category 3 Certification

Yuma, Ariz. —McDonnell Douglas Corp.’s Douglas Aircraft Co. subsidiary is nearing the design freeze point on the Category 3 automatic landing system and head-up display for its DC-9 Super 80 transport, which entered service last September (AW&ST Sept. 22, 1980, p. 30) certificated for Category 2 manual approaches and landings.

By Robert R. Ropelewski15 min

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Avionics

Darpa Funds Microcircuitry Projects

By Benjamin M. Elson12 min

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Air Transport

Fourth Quarter Gains Fail to Offset Earlier Losses

Yield improvements and capacity cutbacks spurred major U. S. airlines to a surprisingly strong fourth quarter in 1980, despite weak traffic, but the fourth-quarter results were not enough to offset big losses in the first three quarters.

By Michael Feazel8 min

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Management

Advance Made on High-energy Laser

Washington —High-energy laser technological breakthrough scored by the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory has the potential to blunt a Soviet nuclear weapons attack on the U. S., according to Defense Dept. and congressional officials.

By Clarence A. Robinson7 min

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Space Technology

Spacelab, Solar-polar Curtailed

Cuts designed to rescue planetary exploration program; strong reaction expected from Europeans and Congress
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Aeronautical Engineering

Heavy-lift Aircraft Studied By Air Force

USAF is scheduled to issue this year a mission element need statement to the Defense Dept, for development of a longrange, heavy-lift intertheater aircraft that could be operational in the mid-1990s. The mission element need statement follows issuance of a statement of operational need in 1979 by the Military Airlift Command for an advanced technology aircraft designed from the outset to fulfill U. S. need for a 1-million-lb.
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Business Flying

Piper Officials Set Goal of Raising Market Share

By David M. North5 min

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Air Transport

U. S. 1980 Cargo Traffic Rises By 1.6%

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Editorial

Charging Into the Swamp

Ronald Reagan’s Administration has been in office a month, just long enough to make its first aerospace budget cuts and its first mistakes. NASA is feeling the first slice of the carving knife, the old myths of taxpayer-supported Export-Import Bank lending and the siphoning off of the aviation trust fund are being trotted out again, but it has taken Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis to plant the first Administration foot in the bubble gum.

By William H. Gregory4 min

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