August 17, 1964

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Industry Results Reflect Wide Variation

Aerospace Industry Financial Results—1963

AEROSPACE VEHICLES Boeing Douglas Fairchild Stratos General Dynamics Grumman Helio Kaman Ling-Temco-Vought Lockheed Martin-Marietta North American* Northrop* Piasecki* Republic Ryan Textron (Bell) BUSINESS FLYING Airwork Beech*

AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Navy to Deploy A-6a Squadron Next Year

Oceana NAS, Va.—First operational Navy squadron equipped with Grumman A-6A Intruder low-level attack aircraft will deploy to the Mediterranean early next year despite problems currently hampering the aircraft and its extensive avionics system.

By David A. Brown12 min

AVIONICS

F-111 Navaid Performs Multiple Functions

Woodland Hills, Calif.—The navigation/attack system of the Air Force’s F-111A tactical fighter, being developed here by Litton Systems, Inc., contains an unusual course offset feature that will enable the aircraft’s pilot to make an accurate bomb run on a pre-assigned target, which may be hidden from the fighter’s radar.

AIR TRANSPORT

Eastern Boosts Aircraft, Flight Reliability

Miami—Extensive reorganization of Eastern Air Lines maintenance and engineering division is producing sharply improved aircraft and flight schedule reliability, plus cost savings that should total over $3 million in the last half of this year.

By James R. Ashlock8 min

AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Tac Evaluates Ground Support Capability in Maneuvers

New concepts of air-ground support in forward combat areas are being evaluated by USAF’s Tactical Air Command at Eglin AFB, Fla., under simulated wartime or counter-insurgency operations. Observers at the large-scale exercises include personnel from TAC’s Special Air Warfare Center, which has developed tactics and trained USAF pilots and ground crews for Vietnam.

By Erwin J. Bulban7 min

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Letters

Mr. Hodges’ dreary statistics (AW June 15, p. 118) only serve to confirm that war is indeed expensive. However, as is typical of many statistic quoters, he presents only those designed to prove his point (which was, I’ll admit, somewhat obscure).

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Ranger TV Performed Near Design Point

Princeton, N. J.—Preliminary performance evaluation of the Ranger 7 television subsystem payload indicates all video system avionics came close to design point and worked as expected. In general, the TV subsystem met all specifications, according to Bernard P. Miller, Ranger program manager at Radio Corp. of America’s Astro-Electronics Div., which produced the TV subsystem here for Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

By Kenneth J. Stein6 min

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