September 11, 1961

September 11, 1961

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Soviet Research and Science Reorganized

By Nicholas DeWitt28 min

SAFETY

Deicer Failure Blamed for Learstar Crash

AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

British Aviation Nears Crucial Decision

By Herbert J. Coleman10 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Soviet Research and Science Reorganized

By Nicholas DeWitt28 min

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SAFETY

Deicer Failure Blamed for Learstar Crash

At approximately 0930 Dec. 15, 1958, a Learstar aircraft, N 37500, owned by Johnson and Johnson, Inc., crashed in a wooded area during a snowstorm approximately 5 mi. southwest of Woonsocket, R. I. The five passengers and the two crew members all received fatal injuries.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

British Aviation Nears Crucial Decision

Industry must soon decide whether or not to join with Europeans in aircraft and engine development.

By Herbert J. Coleman10 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Shift of Government Role in Aviation Seen

Project Horizon report predicts stronger U. S. hand in international affairs but less influence at home.

By David H. Hoffman9 min

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Nato V/stol Proposals Take Shape

Farnborough—At least six design proposals will be entered in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization competition for a lightweight V/STOL closesupport fighter, all of them built around British engines. The competition, whose winners will share possibly the biggest plum for European industry over the next several years, is being waged overtly and covertly on political and technical levels with a scries of agreements and counter agreements in both areas extending from Britain to the U. S. and onto the European continent.

By Cecil Brownlow8 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Atlantic Situation Forcing Policy Decisions

Washington—Rapid expansion of seat capacity on North Atlantic routes and a consequent decline in load factors is forcing the U. S. to make certain moves that indicate the direction it may take in establishing an international civil aviation policy.

By L. L. Doty6 min

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Letters

A recent issue of AVIATION WEEK stated that the big decision regarding supersonic transport has been reached—the U. S. will go for Mach 3 (AW Aug. 7, p. 38). In view of the importance of a decision such as this, as it relates to use of government funds (the taxpayer’s money), and the impact that an incorrect decision will have on the American aircraft industry, I wonder whether the subject might not be reopened?
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AVIONICS

20-year-life Comsat Concept Proposed

Los Angeles—Concept of a 24-hr. passive communications satellite system using high-gain reflectors and capable of relaying up to 20 television channels between New England and Europe was outlined recently before the Sixth Symposium on Ballistic Missile and Aerospace Technology, a meeting jointly sponsored by the Air Force and Aerospace Corp.

By Barry Miller6 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Airlines Block Adoption of Radio Treaty

By Katherine Johnsen6 min

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EDITORIAL

The Military Space Role—i

There has been growing concern lately over the role assigned to the military in the U. S. national space program. Such widely diverse spokesmen as Sen. John Stennis (D.-Miss.), Dr. Walter Dornberger, former commander of the German Peenemunde development center and now vice president of Bell Aerosystems Co., and Robert Seamans, associate administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, have voiced public concern over the current neglect of military aspects of the U.S. space program.

By Robert Hotz4 min

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