June 11, 1962

June 11, 1962

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

463l System Integrates Cargo Handling

By James D. Hendricks20 min

SAFETY

707 Overshoot Linked to Fast Approach

AVIONICS

New Telemetry Multiplex Idea Proposed

By Philip J. Klass8 min

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

463l System Integrates Cargo Handling

Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio—Prototype and production contracts for about one half of the cargo handling equipment in USAF’s 463L Materials Handling Support System will be awarded by Aeronautical Systems Division here within the next three weeks.

By James D. Hendricks20 min

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SAFETY

707 Overshoot Linked to Fast Approach

The following report on the crash of a British Overseas Airways Corp. Boeing 707 turbojet transport at London (Heathrow) Airport on Dec. 24, 1960, was prepared by the British Ministry of Aviation. The aircraft, Boeing 707 series 436, G-APFN, was powered by four Rolls-Royce Conway Series 508 turbojets.
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AVIONICS

New Telemetry Multiplex Idea Proposed

Washington—Fundamentally new approach to telemetry multiplexing, which promises important advantages over presently used time and frequency multiplexing for many applications, was revealed here during the recent National Telemetering Conference.

By Philip J. Klass8 min

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FINANCIAL

Pan American Reports Salaries, Bonuses, Stock Holdings to Cab

Washington—Following is a list of airline officers’ salaries, bonuses and indirect compensation, expenses and stock holdings for the year ending Dec. 31, 1961, as reported to the Civil Aeronautics Board: Pan American World Airways—J. T. Trippe, president and director, $99,038 salary, $2,050 bonus and indirect compensation, $5,358 expenses, 19,739 shares of common stock in the name of others;
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AIR TRANSPORT

Anti-carroll Forces Swing Alpa Election

Miami Beach—Dark-horse candidate Charles Ruby of National Airlines, with the sudden support of every pilot who opposed John Carroll as president of Air Line Pilots Assn., won a close election here to become the third chief executive in the union’s 31-year history.

By David H. Hoffman6 min

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AVIONICS

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BUSINESS FLYING

Hanover Exhibits Include Utility Aircraft, New Sailplanes

Hanover, West Germany—Switzerland’s Pilatus PC-6 Porter and Italy’s Aermacchi Lockheed 60 light aircraft made strong sales bids at the Hanover Air Show for their share of the expanding utility market. Emphasizing the fast conversion potential of their respective aircraft to a number of configurations, both firms featured at least five different adaptations in the outdoor display.

By Edith Walford6 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Aeroflot Plans Broader Role for Tu-124

Russia’s twin-jet Tu-124 transport is being groomed for a variety of services besides its basic mission of flying medium-stage routes in the most densely populated area of the USSR west of the Ural Mountains and down to the Caucasus. Standard model Tu-124 will be the 44-passenger version with a 33.2 metric ton (73,193 lb.) gross takeoff weight and a 1,500 kilometer (932 mile) practical range.
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AIR TRANSPORT

Opponents of Merger Divided on Strategy

Some foes of American-Eastern consolidation score Delta Air Lines’ performance during CAB hearings.

By L. L. Doty5 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Boac, Cunard Steamship to Form Integrated Transatlantic Carrier

New York—British Overseas Airways Corp. and the Cunard Steamship Co., Ltd., last week completed basic arrangements for creation of BOACCunard, Ltd., a jointly-owned operation designed to integrate Great Britain’s transatlantic air service to the Western Hemisphere.

By James D. Hendricks5 min

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