September 2, 1963

September 2, 1963

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MANAGEMENT

Industry Mixed on Dod’s Profit System

By William H. Gregory13 min

SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Ddr&e Ponders Military Comsat Future

By Irving Stone11 min

AVIONICS

Faa, Military Evaluate Hf Grid Antenna

By Barry Miller10 min

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MANAGEMENT

Industry Mixed on Dod’s Profit System

New York—Reaction to Defense Dept.’s weighted guideline profit system, which incorporates incentives and past performance evaluation, is partly elation within industry at the tone of the basic policy statement and partly skepticism as to its translation into reality.

By William H. Gregory13 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Ddr&e Ponders Military Comsat Future

By Irving Stone11 min

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AVIONICS

Faa, Military Evaluate Hf Grid Antenna

Menlo Park, Calif.—An unusual antenna concept which is expected to make possible high-performance high frequency (HF) communications from a single ground antenna simultaneously to widely divergent aircraft or ground stations soon may be evaluated jointly by the Federal Aviation Agency and the three armed services.

By Barry Miller10 min

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Air Force Minimized Engineering Changes on Starlifter

Atlanta—Lockheed C-141 StarLifter jet transport has been subjected to rigid Air Force restriction on engineering change proposals during its 24 years of development, resulting in an aircraft built basically within the existing state-of-the-art to satisfy requirements for both military and commercial operations.

By James R. Ashlock10 min

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MANAGEMENT

Six Aerospace Companies Report Officers’ Compensations to Sec

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: Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.— L. R. Grumman, chairman of the board, $65,400 salary, $13,304 from employees’ retirement system, 100,000 shares of common stock; E. C. Towl, president and director, $82,167 salary, 7,900 shares of common stock; W. T. Schwendler, director and chairman of the executive committee, $74,667 salary, 45,200 shares of common stock; A. P. Loening, director, 12,500 shares of common stock; E. W. Poor, director and treasurer, 24,090 shares of common stock; C. A. Wight, director, 1,000 shares of common stock; J. L. Collyer, director, 100 shares of common stock.
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BUSINESS FLYING

Dh-125 Stresses Operational Simplicity

London—De Havilland Aircraft— acutely conscious of the development lead its DH-125 holds over the rival Dassault Mystere 20 executive jet transport—is accelerating flight testing of the DH-125, an aircraft that should pose no problems for pilot transition from piston power to jets.

By Herbert J. Coleman7 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Fubini Urges Military Space Role Analysis

Washington—Critics of the Defense Dept.’s policy on manned military space programs have been challenged to explore and demonstrate a useful role for military men in space by means of simulation and tests conducted on the ground and from aircraft.

By Philip J. Klass6 min

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MANAGEMENT

York, Kistiakowsky Back Test Ban Treaty

By Katherine Johnsen5 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

U.s.-european Air Transport Rift Widens

Exclusion from Stockholm meeting increases discord centered on transatlantic fare issue and traffic control.

By L. L. Doty5 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Opposition May Kill Aircraft Lighting Plan

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