August 10, 1970

August 10, 1970

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Space Technology

New Technology Shuttle Engine Key

By Michael L. Yaffee12 min

Aeronautical Engineering

Atlantics Perform Major Asw Tasks

By Donald E. Fink10 min

Air Transport

Terms Tightened in Sst Contract

By Harold D. Watkins9 min

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Space Technology

New Technology Shuttle Engine Key

NASA propulsion panel sees need to adapt gas turbines to operate in space environment, utilize hydrogen fuel

By Michael L. Yaffee12 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Atlantics Perform Major Asw Tasks

Three navy squadrons patrol France’s Atlantic coast, logging over 10,000 hr. annually despite retrofit program

By Donald E. Fink10 min

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Air Transport

Terms Tightened in Sst Contract

Government recoupment assured on slower versions; cost-cutting steps incorporated in formal terms of pact

By Harold D. Watkins9 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Engines Are Main Pan Am 747 Problem

Los Angeles—Pan American World Airways had 100 unscheduled engine removals in the first six months of Boeing 747 operation. Half of these have been caused by malfunctions of the N2 tachometer drive shaft bearings and by turbine retaining plate rivet problems.

By William S. Hieronymus7 min

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Air Transport

Excursion Fare Will Get Iata Scrutiny

By Richard S. Kahn7 min

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Air Transport

Post-strike Service Provides Challenges

Miami-Unusually prolonged shut-down of National Airlines due to an Air Line Employees Assn, strike last winter and spring produced exceptional challenges for the carrier’s flight operations and maintenance and engineering departments.

By Harold D. Watkins6 min

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Air Transport

Sst Officials Strive to Blunt Opposition

By Richard G. O'Lone5 min

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Management

Cost, Time Doubts Led to B-1 Fund Slash

By Donald C. Winston5 min

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Avionics

Faa Answers All-weather Critics

Agency official calls airline pilot critique of landing program ‘misleading,' defends it as safe for properly trained pilot

By Charles E. Schneider4 min

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Space Technology

Apollo 12 Seismic Experiment Links Red Lunar Glow to Quakes

Houston-For hundreds of years astronomers have puzzled over a strange red glow which sometimes appears on the surface of the moon when it is nearest the earth. The Apollo 12 lunar surface seismic experiment may have solved that ancient mystery, but at the same time created another concerning the peculiarly precise moonquakes which possibly trigger the coloration.

By Zack Strickland4 min

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