October 31, 1966

October 31, 1966

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Aeronautical Engineering

Maintainability Becomes Engine Byword

By Michael L. Yaffee22 min

Management

Boom in Equipment, Tight Labor Market Begin Squeeze on Manpower

Airports

Burgeoning Traffic Ciogs Airport Roads

By Joseph W. Carter18 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Maintainability Becomes Engine Byword

New York—Large subsonic and supersonic transport engines now in development are being designed to have the highest degree of maintainability ever attained in turbine powerplants. Always an important consideration, maintainability now ranks with other basic powerplant parameters such as safety and weight in importance and priority.

By Michael L. Yaffee22 min

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Management

Boom in Equipment, Tight Labor Market Begin Squeeze on Manpower

New York-Airlines are generally meeting their short-term manpower demands, but they are facing some long-term scarcities that may or may not go away, depending on steps they take and on national and international economic trends. Head counts for U.S. airlines, a powerful lever on costs, are marching upward.
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Airports

Burgeoning Traffic Ciogs Airport Roads

New York-Access to the nation's metropolitan airports is a problem that daily becomes more acute. So far, too little has been done too late to relieve the logjam. Surveys by Aviation Week & Space Technology in this country and abroad show that the problem is having an equal impact in the London area.

By Joseph W. Carter18 min

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Avionics

Sst Avionics to Combine Proven Systems with Growth in Technology

Los Angeles-Avionic systems in the supersonic transport will embody extensive triple redundancy and high-reliability techniques intended to improve its safety, operating efficiency and dispatch reliability. Both Boeing and Lockheed incorporate three independent inertial navigators as a primary means of en route navigation, a significant departure from current commercial subsonic transport technology.

By Barry Miller16 min

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Management

Frequencies, Fares Emerging as European Growth Bars

Geneva-High fares and inadequacy of scheduled service continue to restrain West European scheduled airlines from fully developing their own air travel market, currently one of the world's most promising. A growing number of West European airline officials now concede that fares on high-density intra-European routes are too high and that frequency of schedules on the majority of these routes is too low.

By L. L. Doty15 min

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Airports

Traffic Growth Swamps Airport Facilities

Phoenix-A widening gulf between airport development and aircraft technology poses a serious crisis for airline domestic and international ground facilities over the next decade, delegates attending the annual conference of the Airport Operators Council International were told here.
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Avionics

Airlines Plan Increased Functions for New Computers

New York-Emergence of a third generation of airline digital computer systems promises increased capacity for integrating a growing variety of data functions, generally reflecting increasing adoption of total management information concepts by airline management (AW&ST Oct. 25, 1965, p. 70).

By Kenneth J. Stein14 min

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Management

Doubts Cloud Future of Diversification

Washington-Cautious diversification by airlines is setting off tremors that could upset long-established business and government concepts about the character of the air transport business. More often, airline managers in those companies where there is a "new guard" are interested in broadening the income production potential of their companies.

By Harold D. Watkins11 min

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Traffic

Mac Forecasts Long-term Charter Need

Washington-Defense Dept. requirement for substantial airlift augmentation from the nation's commercial airlines is expected to remain at a high level even after the obvious stimulus of the war in Vietnam has been withdrawn. Air Force's Military Airlift Command, the Defense Dept.'s single manager for airlift, will contract for at least $500 million from the commercial carriers during the current fiscal year, about $400 million of it for international services.

By Cecil Brownlow11 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Longer Flight Test Time Needed for Sst

Washington-Testing of the U.S. supersonic transport to achieve FAA certification will require about 3,600 hr., compared with about 1,700 hr. for a subsonic transport such as the Boeing 727. The program will place unprecedented requirements on the flight test organization and its supporting elements sincc it is tailored to a big rather than a gradual advance in airline equipment complexity.

By B. K. Thomas11 min

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