December 23, 1963

December 23, 1963

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Different Missions Altering Basic S-4b

By Harold D. Watkins20 min

AVIONICS

Avionics Demands Spur Microcircuit Sales

By Barry Miller11 min

SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Mol Requirements Will Be Set By Jan. 1

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Different Missions Altering Basic S-4b

Huntington Beach, Calif.—Douglas S-4B upper stage for two of the three Saturn launch vehicles now planned represents a technological stretch capitalizing on basic design features of the earlier S-4 Saturn stage, but with its own set of problems.

By Harold D. Watkins20 min

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AVIONICS

Avionics Demands Spur Microcircuit Sales

Los Angeles—Microcircuit sales may expand severalfold during 1964 to satisfy a growing demand for these devices in new or retrofitted avionics systems, a recent AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY survey indicates. Major aerospace and military systems progressing bevond the design and prototype stages will account for the largest share of the increase; the remainder is spread among a widening number of equipments and systems, now in design phases, being committed to microcircuitry.

By Barry Miller11 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Mol Requirements Will Be Set By Jan. 1

Contracts totaling $1 million to follow; test program calls for six launches in 18-month, $1-billion project.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Gnat Trainer Demonstrates Reliability, Maneuverability

London—Hawker Siddeley’s tiny Gnat jet trainer, now replacing the de Havilland Vampire in Royal Air Force Training Command, is a rugged airplane with a high degree of reliability and maneuverability in speeds through the transonic range.

By Herbert J. Coleman6 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Farnborough Pushing Concorde Research

Royal Aircraft Establishment teams probing several areas; range stretchout is also being investigated.

By Herbert f. Coleman5 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

C-141 Completes Successful First Flight

By Robert H. Cook5 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Boyd Reappointment Viewed as Certainty

By L. L. Doty4 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Apollo Date Unchanged in Funds Crisis

By Alfred P. Alibrando4 min

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EDITORIAL

Man's Newest Challenge

The manned orbiting space laboratory is the most important military program initiated in the Pentagon in the last three years and it should be managed accordingly. Its importance lies in obtaining hard factual data on what man can or cannot do in operationally useful space vehicles.

By Robert Hotz4 min

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Washington Roundup

The subsonic 88th Congress took off for home last week with promises to finish leftover legislation quickly next year and then take a constructive new look at space, defense and aviation policies. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield felt defensive enough about the performance of the 1963 session to call the adjournment merely the “half-time,” not the end of the game.

By Washington Staff4 min

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