August 26, 1963

August 26, 1963

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

San Marco Satellite to Probe Air Density

By Warren C. Wetmore11 min

AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

President’s Role in Tfx Award Disclosed

By Edward H. Kolcum10 min

MANAGEMENT

Data System Used in Production Control

By Harold D. Watkins10 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

San Marco Satellite to Probe Air Density

Rome—Project San Marco, involving the first satellite designed and built in Western Europe, is the fruit of extensive collaboration between Italy’s National Research Council (CNR) and the U. S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

By Warren C. Wetmore11 min

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

President’s Role in Tfx Award Disclosed

By Edward H. Kolcum10 min

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MANAGEMENT

Data System Used in Production Control

Sunnyvale, Calif.—Data acquisition and retrieval system that its developers say may become “as standard in large-scale industry as a typewriter or telephone” is assuming a major role in production control at Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. here.

By Harold D. Watkins10 min

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AVIONICS

Machine That ‘learns’ May Be Recon Aid

Falls Church, Va.—A machine which can quickly learn to recognize and identify complex patterns, suggesting its use for preliminary analysis of aerial reconnaissance photos, was demonstrated here recently by Scope, Inc. Machine, known as Conflex 1 (for “conditioned reflex”), was developed under contract to USAF’s Aeronautical Systems Div.’s Avionics Laboratory.

By Philip J. Klass9 min

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BUSINESS FLYING

Faa Evaluating Lightplane Transponders

Experimental altitude reporting transponder beacons, designed to facilitate radar surveillance of light aircraft flying in controlled airspace, are in the initial stages of flight evaluation at the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center, Atlantic City, N. J.

By Barry Miller9 min

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MANAGEMENT

F-lll Subcontractors Monitored Closely

Ft. Worth—General Dynamics/Ft. Worth management of the Air Force F-111A/Navy F-111B (TFX) subcontracting program is keyed to resident offices located at each of these sites and insistence that each major subcontractor provide a project-oriented organization to monitor its program.

By Erwin J. Bulban8 min

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BUSINESS FLYING

Mitsubishi Seeking U. S. Sales Penetration

Kerrville, Tex.—Detailed planning by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, geared to breaking into the U. S. business aircraft market as a major competitor, is the keynote of its agreement with Mooney Aircraft, Inc., to assemble, sell and service the Japanese firm’s new MU-2 turboprop-powered executive transport in this country, Canada and Mexico (AW Aug. 12, p. 37).
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BAC 111 Makes Maiden Flight

Dulles Faces Struggle to Prove Design

By Robert H. Cook7 min

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MANAGEMENT

Aerospace Companies Report on Salaries

Washington—Following is a list of aerospace industry directors and officers with 1962 salaries above $30,000, and their stockholdings, as they were reported to the SEC: Cessna Aircraft Co.—D. L. Wallace, president and director, $96,000 salary, 141,707 shares of common stock (members of Mr. Wallace’s immediate family are the direct or beneficial owners of an additional 69,868 shares of common stock) ; F. A. Boettger, senior vice president-finance and administration, and director, $78,000 salary, 24,441 shares of common stock;
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First C-141 Rolled Out; Production Rate of Seven Planes Monthly Planned By 1966

Atlanta—Production rate for the USAF/Lockheed C-141 StarLifter jet transport is planned to reach seven aircraft per month by 1966, based on the current total military order for 132 planes. Full-scale production at Lockheed-Georgia here will not begin, however, until the first five production aircraft have received dual certification to meet military and Federal Aviation Agency requirements.

By James R. Ashlock6 min

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