July 22, 1968

July 22, 1968

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Air Transport

Miami Plans Large-scale Training Airport

By Harold D. Watkins16 min

Special Report: Aeroflot Inaugural

New Aeroflot Competitive 'image' Emerges on Inaugural

By Donald C. Winston10 min

Air Transport

Boeing Approaches Critical Sst Decision

By Harold D. Watkins10 min

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Air Transport

Miami Plans Large-scale Training Airport

Miami-Airport authorities here are planning to solve some short-run air traffic congestion problems as well as meet long-run expansion requirements with a massive 38-sq.-mi. complex to be developed in the Everglades about 40 mi. west of the downtown area.

By Harold D. Watkins16 min

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Special Report: Aeroflot Inaugural

New Aeroflot Competitive 'image' Emerges on Inaugural

New York-Aeroflot demonstrated a newly acquired capability to compete in the long-haul international air carrier market with the inaugural of direct service last week between Moscow and New York. In equipment, crew proficiency and passenger service the Soviet governmentoperated airline left few doubts that it could perform on a par with the West’s major carriers.

By Donald C. Winston10 min

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Air Transport

Boeing Approaches Critical Sst Decision

Stringently rewritten contract will force company management to proceed at risk of costly default or withdraw in early fall

By Harold D. Watkins10 min

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Air Transport

Congestion Crisis Jams Airways

Delays exceeding 6 hr. reported as spurt in summer peak travel combines with stricter observance of traffic separation criteria

By Kenneth J. Stein8 min

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Air War in Vietnam

U.s. Shifts Tactics Over North

President's decision limiting air strikes to area below 19th parallel has dictated changes in ordnance loads, operations

By Cecil Brownlow8 min

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Avionics

Gamma-ray Stationkeeping System Flown

Patuxent River, Md.-Navy scientists are encouraged by the first flight tests of an all-weather helicopter stationkeeping technique using radioisotope-generated gamma rays. The tests were conducted here recently at the Naval Air Test Center.

By Philip J. Klass6 min

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Special Report: Aeroflot Inaugural

Aeroflot Plans Major Expansion

New international route goals emphasized in Soviet airline’s drive to swell foreign passenger revenues in Five Year Plan

By Robert Hotz5 min

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Air Transport

$50.5-million Revenue Bonds Sold to Finance Miami International Expansion

Miami-Airport officials here are preparing to expand Miami International Airport to its maximum capacity, while at the same time laying plans for a massive new complex to the west of the city (see story). A $50.5-million revenue bond issue was sold July 9 to finance a variety of projects at the existing airport, in addition to the $9.5 million included for the new training facility in the Everglades.
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Business Flying

New Helicopter Aimed at Business Market

Philadelphia-Piasecki Aircraft Corp. expects to fly a new, compound, twinengine helicopter next year and hopes to receive airworthiness certification for it from the Federal Aviation Administration in 1970. The new machine, to be designated the Model 16 H-3H, will seat 8-9 persons and will be directed at the business aircraft market.

By David A. Brown5 min

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Air Transport

Sas, Klm, Swissair in Maintenance Pact

By Edward H. Kolcum5 min

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