March 25, 1963

March 25, 1963

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MANAGEMENT

McNamara Explains TFX Award Decision

SPACE TECHNOLOGY

S-1C Heavy Tooling Installed at Marshall; Center to Begin Building Four Stages Soon

By George Alexander

AIR TRANSPORT

Merger Attempt Is Part of Long Campaign

By L. L. Doty

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MANAGEMENT

McNamara Explains TFX Award Decision

My decision in November, 1962, to se lect General Dynamics over the Boeing Co., as the better of two qualified competitors, was based on the judgment that the Gen eral Dynamics design would result in an air plane less expensive to produce, maintain, and operate, and more dependable both in training missions and in actual combat.
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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

S-1C Heavy Tooling Installed at Marshall; Center to Begin Building Four Stages Soon

Huntsville, Ala.—Heavy tooling for manufacture of the Saturn S-1C booster has been installed here at Marshall Space Flight Center. This National Aeronautics and Space Administration center expects to begin soon the construction of one flight and three ground test stages, as well as several major S-1C structural assemblies.

By George Alexander

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AIR TRANSPORT

Merger Attempt Is Part of Long Campaign

Washington—Bid by Pan American World Airways to merge with TWA is another episode in a long chronicle of similar merger proposals and legislative moves in the carrier’s persistent but unsuccessful drive to become the chosen instrument of the U. S. and to annex domestic routes to its international system.

By L. L. Doty

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

CL-41 A Designed for COIN, Recon Flights

Montreal—Weapons and photographic packages, which will make possible conversion of the CL-41A jet trainer to photo-reconnaissance or counterinsurgency fighter configurations in 12 hr., are under development by Canadair, Ltd. Canadair, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corp., is looking to newly emerging African nations with limited budgets as its best prospective customers, since the CL-41 would give them a training aircraft which could be quickly converted for combat operations with limited additional expense.

By Donald E. Fink

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MANAGEMENT

U.K. Concern Grows Over Scientist Exodus

London—British concern over the loss of scientific talent through emigration to other countries—mainly the U. S. —has been sharply underscored by a warning from the Royal Society that the departures have caused difficulties in important fields of scientific research.

By Herbert J. Coleman

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

AIAA Asks Better Space System Testing

By George Alexander

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

F-l11 Probe Shifts to Differing Evaluations

Washington—Air Force and Navy officers on the F-l1 111 (TFX) source selection boards will be pitted against those civilian superiors who reversed them as the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee enters the next phase of its probe of the $6.5-billion tactical fighter contract.

By George C. Wilson

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AVIONICS

Myoelectric Servo Control Is Developed

Van Nuys, Calif.—Feasibility of using electrical signals associated with contraction of shoulder muscles to control a servo boost system which would enable an astronaut to move his arms during spacecraft re-entry was reported last week at the Air Force’s Second Symposium on Bionics in Dayton, Ohio.

By Barry Miller

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Artificial Belt May Last 10 Years, Van Allen Tells Goddard Session

By Warren C. Wetmore

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AIR TRANSPORT

FAA Plans Wide Recorder Requirements

By Robert H. Cook

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