May 11, 1964

May 11, 1964

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Ranger Design and Management Criticized

BUSINESS FLYING

Jet Commander Provides Solid Handling

By David A. Brown11 min

AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Cruise Fan Engine Effort Pushed By Ge

By James R. Ashlock8 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Ranger Design and Management Criticized

Recommendation: A combined testing and design review to be conducted on Rangers 6-9. This program also to com tribute to the redesign of Rangers 10 and subsequent. Action: The Ranger 6 spacecraft scheduled for flight in Jan., 1963, was subjected to a life test program in the environmental chamber at JPL.
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BUSINESS FLYING

Jet Commander Provides Solid Handling

Norman, Okla.—Aero Commander’s Model 1121 Jet Commander—designed as a rugged and aerodynamically unsophisticated corporate transport—displays solid handling characteristics in flight, has exceptional low-speed performance and can climb at better than 5,000 fpm.

By David A. Brown11 min

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Cruise Fan Engine Effort Pushed By Ge

New York—Development of a high bypass ratio tip-turbine cruise fan engine is receiving special attention at General Electric Co. with the aim of fulfilling long-endurance powerplant requirements for the proposed cargo experimental heavy logistics system aircraft (CX-IILS).

By James R. Ashlock8 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

First S-2 Flight Stage Build-up Scheduled

Los Angeles—First flight article of the 81.5-ft.-high, 33-ft.-dia. S-2 second stage for the Saturn 5 booster will be delivered early in 1966 to National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Mississippi test site for static firing. To meet this delivery schedule, build-up of this first-flight stage is programed to begin this fall.

By Irving Stone7 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Cab Defies Congress on Helicopter Aid

Major fight brews as Boyd crosses White House, legislators in plan to maintain subsidy level for three lines.

By George C. Wilson7 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Klm Optimistic on Financial Prospects

The Hague—Management of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines hopes to approach the break-even point next year, although the carrier has had multi-million-dollar losses in each of the last three years. Officials base their optimism on several factors, not the least of which is a management team that is reported cooperating instead of feuding (AW Dec. 16, p. 50).

By Joseph W. Carter6 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

House Unit Will Recommend Nasa Resident Official to Oversee Jpl

Washington—House investigation subcommittee is expected to recommend that National Aeronautics and Space Administration appoint a resident manager to oversee Jet Propulsion Laboratory activities and thus reclaim some of the responsibilities it has allowed the private laboratory to assume.

By Donald E. Fink6 min

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Letters

AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY has made an important contribution to the understanding of science and the national destiny by publishing as an editorial, under the title “Dr. Killian’s Warning,” excerpts from a speech. Unfortunately, Dr. James R. Killian, Jr., was identified in an editor’s note as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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AVIONICS

Careless Use of Redundant Design Can Cause Reduction in Reliability

Use of redundant components and circuits without full analysis of all interactions involved can result in little or no improvement in reliability and may actually degrade reliability. This warning was sounded by George W. Emerson, Martin’s Denver Div., at the recent Conference on Aerospace Electro-Technology at Phoenix.

By Philip J. Klass6 min

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AVIONICS

Adaptive Computer Utilizes Microcircuits

Palo Alto, Calif.—A triply redundant adaptive flight control computer which achieves substantial savings in size, weight, power consumption and anticipated reliability through the use of semiconductor microcircuits is nearing completion here at Fairchild Camera & Instrument Space and Defense Systems.

By Barry Miller5 min

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