March 23, 1970

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Aeronautical Engineering

F-111 Crash Spurs Tightening of Standards

Significantly tightened quality assurance standards on billets and forgings for critical structural aircraft components are planned by General Dynamics/Ft. Worth for its suppliers as a result of the Dec. 22, 1969, crash of an Air Force F-111A variablegeometry fighter.

Air Transport

Optimism Marks Delta Forecasts

Atlanta-Delta Air Lines is facing the 1970s with a confident, bullish optimism growing out of a straight-forward, extremely stable management establishment backed by a strong profit record and a generous supply of new technology. Unlike trunklines which had a bad year in 1969, Delta believes 1970 will be an excellent year for traffic increase and that favorable growth trends will prevail through the decade.

By James P. Woolsey7 min

Air Transport

Single-class Sst Concept Seen Profitable

London-Extensive computer marketing program, based on projected needs of airlines for supersonic transports up to 1990, has convinced British Aircraft Corp. and its French partner, Sud Aviation, that the single-class sales concept can capture up to 25% of the long-range travel market.

By Herbert J. Coleman7 min

Aeronautical Engineering

Improved Fastener Devices Sought

Giant jets, supersonic transport spur efforts of manufacturers to reduce costs of fasteners used to join airframe components

By William S. Hieronymus6 min

Aeronautical Engineering

Pan Am Devises New Maintenance Control

New York-Pan American World Airways is developing a new concept of management maintenance control which it plans to implement in 1972 at an estimated annual cost savings of $5 million. Basically an information system which incorporates maintenance programing and control functions into an integrated operation, the plan was first formulated in 1968.

By Laurence Doty6 min

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Eadi Leads Surge Into New Phase

By Kenneth J. Stein10 min