December 12, 1966

December 12, 1966

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Air Transport

Miami Congestion Problem Spurs Dispute

By George Alexander10 min

Management

Defense Dept. Lists Top 100 Contractors for Fiscal 1966

Avionics

Autoland System Tested in Heathrow Fog

By Herbert J. Coleman9 min

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Air Transport

Miami Congestion Problem Spurs Dispute

Miami, Fla.-There is general agreement here that Miami International Airport is in danger of being swamped by the ever-increasing tide of annual passenger volumes and badly-congested surface access routes to the main terminal. But there is disagreement on whether the present facility should be patched up and bailed, or whether all operations should move to a new airfield.

By George Alexander10 min

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Management

Defense Dept. Lists Top 100 Contractors for Fiscal 1966

Rank Companies Millions of Dollars Percent of U. S. Total Cumulative Percent of U. S. Total U. S. Total' $33,532.6 100.0% 100.0% Total, 100 companies and their subsidiaries'’ 21,400.8 63.8 63.8 1. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. 1,526.6 Lockheed Shipbuilding & 5.4 Construction Co.
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Avionics

Autoland System Tested in Heathrow Fog

London-Hawker Siddeley Trident Autoland test team is intensifying a winter program of actual blind landings to touchdown in heavy fog at London Heathrow Airport in a governmentbacked project to retain a strong lead in the field (AW&ST Jan. 14, 1963, p. 70).

By Herbert J. Coleman9 min

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Avionics

Median Signals Control Flight of F-111

Triple-redundant GE flight control unit operates for 1,500 hr. in variable-geometry aircraft without system failure

By Philip J. Lass8 min

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Airport, Handling Problems to Accompany Advent of 747

Airports seen lagging 3 to 5 years behind introduction of advanced transport as room to expand grows scarcer

By William H. Gregory8 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Airframe Maintenance Challenge to Grow

Los Angeles-Highlights of an airline operator’s searching look at future airframe structural maintenance were outlined at the Air Transport Association’s recent engineering and maintenance conference here. R. C. Collins, aircraft engineering manager for United Air Lines, San Francisco, in a joint presentation with UAL staff engineer J. W. Steffen, says that for the period up to 1980, “. . . what has gone on in the past will seem like a bed of roses.”

By Irving Stone7 min

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Air Transport

Near-miss Rate Spurs European Concern

Lack of control over military traffic, poor coordination between nations seen increasing midair collision hazard

By L. L. Doty7 min

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Business Flying

Commuterlines Urged to Seek Firm Rules

CAB official advises operators to petition Board for notice of proposed rule-making to establish registration, schedules

By Richard G. O’Lone7 min

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Space Technology

Marquardt Developing Composite Engines

Powerplants would combine high thrust of rockets with low fuel consumption of air-breathers; USAF, NASA fund efforts

By Michael L. Yaffee7 min

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Air Transport

Subsonic Jet Problems of the 1970s Examined

Paris-Analysis of economic and operating problems that will accompany the introduction of an estimated $12 billion worth of subsonic jet transports during the 1970s emerged as a leading issue during the second symposium of the Institute of Air Transport (ITA) here recently.
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