October 14, 1963

October 14, 1963

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Cooper Reports on Details of Ma-9 Flight

AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Jt8d Engine Uses Full-length Fan Duct

By Donald E. Fink9 min

AIR TRANSPORT

U.s. Supersonic Transport Clears First Big Congressional Hurdle

By George C. Wilson7 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Cooper Reports on Details of Ma-9 Flight

When the seven of us came together as a group for the first time at Langley Field, Va., in April of 1959, neither we, any of the newly created NASA Space Task Group, nor anyone in the country knew what our exact roles as Project Mercury astronauts would entail.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Jt8d Engine Uses Full-length Fan Duct

East Hartford, Conn.—Design concept of Pratt & Whitney’s JT8D turbofan, the company’s first engine to employ a full length fan duct, will meet the test of operational use next spring when the Boeing 727 medium-range transport enters regular commercial service.

By Donald E. Fink9 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

U.s. Supersonic Transport Clears First Big Congressional Hurdle

By George C. Wilson7 min

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MANAGEMENT

Lower Fiscal 1965 Defense Request Seen

Estimates of Soviet spending, end of peak U. S. outlay for missiles could cut funding request by $2 billion.

By Larry Booda7 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Mercury Problems, Successes Reviewed

By Erwin J. Bulban6 min

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EDITORIAL

The Lonely Warrior

In the fierce technological struggles that determine the fate of modern nations, most of the critical battles are fought in faraway corners of a bureaucratic maze, often in the cloying atmosphere of committee-infested conference rooms and always cloaked by deep secrecy.

By Robert Hotz6 min

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Disarmament ‘police’ Aircraft Planned

By Katherine Johnsen5 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Iata Session Delegates Face Reappraisal

Rome—International Air Transport Assn., jolted last week by the racial bombshell that was dropped shortly after the opening session of the 19th annual general meeting here, now appears headed for a reappraisal by a number of delegates who are questioning the value of these costly annual social gatherings of top airline executives.

By L. L. Doty5 min

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AVIONICS

Loran-c Tested as Atomic Blast Detector

Washington—New means for detecting high-altitude nuclear explosions, using existing Loran-C networks established to enable Polaris submarines and surface ships to pinpoint their locations, provides an additional method for discovering violations of the recent atmospheric nuclear test ban treaty.

By Philip J. Klass5 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Nasa Backs Industry’s Mercury Record

Washington-Top manned space flight officials last week assured Congress at a special hearing that industry performance in Project Mercury was outstanding, and not shoddy as some concluded from a summary report on the project presented Oct. 3-4 at National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Manned Spacecraft Center (AW Oct. 7, p. 34).

By Alfred P. Alibrando5 min

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