October 18, 1965

October 18, 1965

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BUSINESS FLYING

Jet Service Utilizes Military Procedures

By David A. Brown13 min

SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Gemini Rendezvous Hinges on Countdown

By George Alexander8 min

MANAGEMENT

Lockheed Sees Management Key to C-5a

By Cecil Brownlow8 min

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BUSINESS FLYING

Jet Service Utilizes Military Procedures

Columbus, Ohio—Heavy reliance on military experience and operating procedures, plus a major effort to get the most out of the inherent flexibility of the present business jet aircraft, has permitted Executive Jet Aviation, Inc., to guarantee transportation within 6 hr. to clients anywhere in the U.S.

By David A. Brown13 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Gemini Rendezvous Hinges on Countdown

Cocoa Beach, Fla.—Back-to-back launches next week of the Gemini 6 manned spacecraft and its Agena rendezvous target will hinge largely on meshing of the countdowns of four major systems—the spacecraft and its Titan launch vehicle and the Agena and its Atlas booster.

By George Alexander8 min

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MANAGEMENT

Lockheed Sees Management Key to C-5a

Marietta, Ga.—Management techniques and planning played a possibly overriding role during Air Force considerations prior to the selection of a prime airframe contractor for its C-5A heavy logistics transport system, according to Thomas R. May, Lockheed-Georgia Co. vice president and program manager for the aircraft.

By Cecil Brownlow8 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Mckee Calls Sst Next Step in Transport

FAA chief urges development irrespective of Concorde fate; sees certification of U.S. aircraft in 1974.
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MANAGEMENT

Air Force Tightens Rein on Required Data

Beverly Hills, Calif.—Air Force struggle to control the mass of technical and other data generated for it by contractors will move ahead another step as a result of recent industry endorsement of USAF efforts to improve data management in the past 18 months.

By Harold D. Watkins7 min

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MANAGEMENT

Bonn Seeking Additional Nuclear Weapon

Paris—U.S. North Atlantic Treaty Organization commanders here and West German defense leaders in Bonn still are pressing for an additional nuclear weapon to counter the threat of the 700 Soviet medium-range ballistic missiles pointing at Europe.

By George C. Wilson6 min

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AVIONICS

New Machine Speeds Diagram Production

New semi-automatic drafting machine which can produce schematic, wiring, printed circuit and flow diagrams in a fraction of the time now required has been developed by Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. The company expects it will do for the drafting room what Ottmar Mergenthaler's Linotype machine did for the printing shop.

By Philip J. Klass5 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Need Seen for Global Space Rescue Code

Washington—Probability of stranding up to two dozen astronauts and cosmonauts in orbit over the next two decades, raised in a recent projection by a Martin Co. engineer, would require the establishment of a space rescue code and an international rescue service.

By William J. Normyle5 min

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Accelerating Gemini Pace Clouds Future of Extra-vehicular Plans

St. Louis, Mo.—Changes in the accelerating Gemini program are coming so fast that planners no longer can predict with precision when, or to what extent, future flights will permit astronauts to maneuver outside the two-man spacecraft. There is only one scheduled extra-vehicular activity in future flights—that to be made on Gemini 8 by Maj. David R. Scott (AW&ST Sept. 27, p. 36).

By William J. Normyle5 min

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EDITORIAL

A Nato Common Market

A common market in its purest form probably does not exist anywhere in the world and may never exist in its purest form. A common market in its theoretical form would eliminate all barriers to the free flow of trade, technology and capital. . . .
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