December 21, 1964

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MANAGEMENT

Air Rescue Service Pushes Modernization to Handle Expanded Search-recovery Role

Orlando AFB, Fla.-USAF’s Air Rescue Service has begun a three-year modernization program which will make turbine-powered fixed and rotary-wing aircraft the backbone of its inventory. However, the service finds itself with an expanded role in aerospace rescue and recovery operations which could make full use of this new equipment today.

By George Alexander21 min

SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Crew Monitoring to Have Station Priority

Washington—Biomedical monitoring of astronauts in orbiting space stations will take precedence over the 24 experiments proposed for long-duration flights in the Lockheed report prepared for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

By William J. Normyle13 min

Top Research Contractors Listed By Dod

Washington—Following Defense Dept, tabulation lists the top prime contractors receiving awards of $10,000 or more for experimental, developmental test and research (EDTR) work during Fiscal 1964. As the leading contractor, North American Aviation, Inc., moved to its first-place position from the fourth spot it held in Fiscal 1963 (AW&ST Dec. 7, p. 27).

Letters

You’ve probably received this suggestion already from another reader. I’m a few weeks behind in my issues here in the Far East, but I’ll pass it on anyway. I think the 15-deg. inboard rudder slant on the A-ll is intended to cancel the adverse roll tendency of normal rudders.

AVIONICS

Varactor Diode Cuts Millimeter Losses

Anaheim, Calif.—Application of a new varactor diode configuration is being pursued here in the hopes of significantly improving the performance of parametric amplifiers, harmonic generators and other solid-state microwave devices and pushing their operation well up into the millimeter wave region of the spectrum.

By Barry Miller6 min

MANAGEMENT

Air Force Hopes to Ease Cutback for Active Reserve, Guard Units

Washington—Air Force hopes to avoid any massive cuts in its flying Air Reserve and Air National Guard units similar in scope to reductions recently ordered for the Army’s reserve components, although there is admitted deadwood that will be scrapped within the near future.

By Cecil Brownlow5 min

EDITORIAL

Transport Equipment Outlook

Major advances in technology have always lifted the air transport industry to new levels of profits and usefulness that have consistently surpassed even the rosiesthued prophecies of future growth. The financial results of major U. S. trunklines for 1964 (see p. 28) indicate clearly that the jet age combined with a generally prosperous economy offers every prospect of a commercial success far beyond the most optimistic projections of the pre-jet era economists.

By Robert Hotz5 min

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