May 18, 1964

May 18, 1964

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Xb-70a’s Research Role Will Contribute Mach 3 Flight Data for Sst Development

By C. M. Plattner10 min

BUSINESS FLYING

Spraying Program Uses New Techniques

By David A. Brown7 min

AVIONICS

Nasa Plans Laser Rendezvous Guidance

By Barry Miller7 min

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Xb-70a’s Research Role Will Contribute Mach 3 Flight Data for Sst Development

Palmdale, Calif.—USAF/North American XB-70A—scheduled to begin its flight test program in August with the first flight of the No. 1 aircraft-will play an important part in supersonic transport development in its role as an experimental research airplane.

By C. M. Plattner10 min

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BUSINESS FLYING

Spraying Program Uses New Techniques

Montreal—Aerial program to control a major outbreak of spruce budworms —now entering its 12th year—has resulted in new forestry flying techniques and the use of larger aircraft for more efficient spray coverage. The program, managed by a non-profit crown company headquartered here, Forest Protection, Ltd., is designed to protect approximately 15,000,000 acres of New Brunswick forest land from the insect, which emerges for only a brief period each spring.

By David A. Brown7 min

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AVIONICS

Nasa Plans Laser Rendezvous Guidance

Los Angeles—An optical guidance system which could be used for a space rendezvous mission is being developed by the Marshall Space Flight Center of National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The system employs pulsed galliumarsenide optical masers (lasers) on both the chase and target vehicles of the cooperative system for securing coarse range, range rate and angular data.

By Barry Miller7 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Lunar Imp Experiments to Be Selected

Greenbelt, Md.—Set of experiments will be selected this month for the fourth and fifth interplanetary monitoring platform (IMP) spacecraft, which will be launched into lunar orbits to measure interplanetary magnetic field intensity and solar plasma characteristics near the moon.

By Donald E. Fink7 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Nerva Space Simulation-firing Complex Almost Ready

Jackass Flats, Nev. — Engine Test Stand-1, a $24-million complex of facilities designed to test the 1,000-megawatt Nerva nuclear rocket engine in vertical attitude under conditions simulating space flight, is nearing completion here.

By Erwin J. Bulban7 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Russians Describe Space Tests at Cospar

By Warren C. Wetmore7 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Air Force Solving Tracking Ship Problems

Patrick AFB, Fla.—USAF is gradually solving problems which have troubled its two advanced-range instrumentation ships (ARIS)—the Gen. H. H. Arnold and the Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg—since their introduction on the Atlantic Missile Range last year.

By George Alexander7 min

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MANAGEMENT

Amery Orders Review of U.k. Contracting

London—Disclosure that Ferranti, Ltd., the electronics firm, made a profit of 63% on its Bloodhound Mark 1 surface-to-air weapons contract (AW Apr. 27, p. 37) has seriously embarrassed the Conservative Administration and forced the Minister of Aviation to order a major review of contract procedures.

By Herbert J. Coleman6 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Public Support of Lunar Mission Debated

By William H. Gregory6 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Weight Limit Curtails Helicopters at Fair

By James R. Ashlock5 min

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