August 10, 1964

August 10, 1964

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SAFETY

Northwest Dc-7c Crashes Into Pacific

AVIONICS

Navy Helicopter Avionics System Concepts Producing Spillover Benefit

By Barry Miller13 min

SPECIAL VIETNAM REPORT

Usaf Girds for Counterblow in Vietnam

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SAFETY

Northwest Dc-7c Crashes Into Pacific

A Northwest Airlines, Inc., Douglas DC7C, N 290 Military Air Transport Service (MATS) charter Flight 293, crashed in the north Pacific Ocean approximately 116 naut. mi. west-southwest of Annette Island, Alaska, at approximately 1816 GMT., June 3, 1963.
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AVIONICS

Navy Helicopter Avionics System Concepts Producing Spillover Benefit

Los Angeles—Concepts, philosophy and hardware evolving from the Navy’s Integrated Helicopter Avionics System (IHAS) program—one of the most sweeping military airborne avionics efforts ever undertaken—will have a significance beyond the immediate application of the system in the Sikorsky CH-53A heavy assault helicopter.

By Barry Miller13 min

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SPECIAL VIETNAM REPORT

Usaf Girds for Counterblow in Vietnam

Jet aircraft moved to Saigon after U. S. answers torpedo boat attack with strike at northern bases.
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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Usaf Seeks Combustion Instability Data

Edwards AFB—Evaluation of the roles which injector and propellant characteristics play in combustion instability has been undertaken by USAF’s Rocket Propulsion Laboratory here in an effort to provide guidelines for designing stable high-performance liquid rocket engines.

By C. M. Plattner10 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Ranger Photos Boost Confidence in Apollo

Pasadena—Preliminary examination of the close-up photographs of the lunar surface taken by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Ranger 7 spacecraft has increased confidence in the present mission concept and design of the Apollo spacecraft.

By Harold D. Watkins10 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Allegheny Plans Fare, Operations Changes

Pittsburgh—Allegheny Airlines plans innovations in fares and operations that may prove as controversial in the local-service industry as its aviation service division has among competing fixed-base operators. Allegheny has in recent years intensively promoted all-cargo and charter services, car rentals through an affiliate and, more recently, its fixed-base operation at Greater Pittsburgh Airport.

By Joseph W. Carter8 min

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MANAGEMENT

Amery Refuses to Quit Under Labor Fire

By Herbert J. Coleman5 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

American, Northwest Granted New Routes

Board moves to restore competition in four areas dominated by United since Capital merger in 1961.

By James R. Ashlock5 min

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EDITORIAL

The Chinese Puzzle

Perhaps with the passing of time the motives for the North Vietnamese torpedo boat attacks on U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin will become clear. At the moment they appear to be a genuine Chinese puzzle, since it is highly unlikely that the Hanoi government launched these repeated attacks without approval from Peking.

By Robert Hotz4 min

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MANAGEMENT

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