January 14, 1963

January 14, 1963

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SAFETY

Loss of Linkage Bolt Causes Twa Crash

AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Xc-142a Detail Design Effort Hits Peak

By David A. Anderton15 min

AVIONICS

Faa, Ata Pick British Landing System

By Philip J. Klass14 min

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SAFETY

Loss of Linkage Bolt Causes Twa Crash

Trans World Airlines Flight 529, a model 049 Lockheed Constellation, N 86511, crashed about nine miles west of Midway Airport, Chicago, Ill., on Sept. 1, 1961, at 0205 CDT, killing all 78 occupants. The flight originated at Boston, Mass., destination San Francisco, Calif., with intermediate stops scheduled at New York, N. Y.; Pittsburgh, Penn.; Chicago, Ill.; Las Vegas, Nev., and Los Angeles, Calif. The flight to Chicago was routine.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Xc-142a Detail Design Effort Hits Peak

Detail engineering design workload on the XC-142A V/STOL transport program currently is at its peak and is expected to be completed early next year. First aircraft, being developed by a team of Chance Vought Corp., Hiller Aircraft Corp., and Ryan Aeronautical Co., is scheduled for rollout at the end of this year (AW Sept. 3, p. 24).

By David A. Anderton15 min

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AVIONICS

Faa, Ata Pick British Landing System

Washington—Performance of the British-developed BLEU automatic landing system installed in a Federal Aviation Agency DC-7 during nearly 300 hands-off landings in the U. S. has helped convince the FAA and U. S. airlines that this is the best available technical approach to safer bad-weather landings and lower weather minimums.

By Philip J. Klass14 min

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MANAGEMENT

Lockheed Tops Defense Contractor List

Washington—Gains in relative positions were registered by nine defense contractors in the group ranking from 10th to 20th of the top 100 companies who had prime contracts of $10,000 or more in Fiscal 1962. The first nine are the same, but the relative positions of the first four changed, with Lockheed Aircraft Corp. taking first place from General Dynamics Corp.
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AIR TRANSPORT

Political Unrest Threatens African Airlines

Carriers fear that government instability due to nationalism may block progress in air transport

By Robert H. Cook8 min

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MANAGEMENT

Congress to Examine Offensive Flexibility

Washington—Congressional concern over the cancellation of the Skybolt missile is distilling into the fundamental question of whether the Kennedy Administration is losing the offensive flexibility it promised by relying too heavily on missiles as opposed to manned aircraft.

By George C. Wilson7 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Nasa Studies Hazards of Lunar Impact Particles

Moffett Field, Calif.—Hazards to lunar exploration created by surface particles scattered from the moon when it is struck by high-velocity meteoroids will be assessed next year in top-priority experiments scheduled for the first Surveyor soft-landed lunar spacecraft.

By Barry Miller7 min

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MANAGEMENT

Mcnamara Pushing Usaf-army Rivalry

Assignment of limited warfare missions at stake; role of helicopters in Vietnam stirs controversy.

By Larry Booda6 min

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Letters

Joys of Travel Before you lay away your cudgel for 1962, and feel warm all over during this time of "Good Will to Men,” how about striking a blow for the nameless, harried, tempesttos’t traveller who par's our salary—the airline passenger?
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AVIONICS

Telstar Fault Located, Fixed From Earth

By Philip J. Klass6 min

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