August 2, 1971

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Air Transport

Airlines Focus on Special Interest Groups

New York-Airline assumptions that future traffic growth will have to come predominantly from pleasure travel are generating a more formally organized approach to cultivation of a heterogeneous group of markets under the name special interest.

By William H. Gregory9 min

Avionics

TV in Helicopter Aids New York Police

New York—Helicopter-borne television system, providing live picture transmission from a New York City Police Dept. Bell 206A direct to command-level officers of the department, is proving a useful tool in aiding officials to mobilize men and equipment to handle such emergencies as major fires, parades, demonstrations and traffic congestion.

By Kenneth J. Stein6 min

Editorial

Breaking with Tradition

(Edward G. Uhl, president of Fairchild Industries, Inc., has made a habit of breaking with long-established industry tradition. He challenged and got a reversal of a major NASA contract award for an Applications Technology Satellite.

Business Flying

St-27 Stresses Ruggedness, Simplicity

Southend-on-Sea, England-Saunders ST-27 twin turboprop feederliner transport, now entering production at Gimli, Manitoba, Canada, is a rugged and simple design aimed at extending the life of the de Havilland Heron four-engine aircraft from which it is derived.

By Herbert J. Coleman6 min

Space Technology

Titan 3l Studied as Expendable Booster

Washington-Martin Marietta Corp. engineers say they can build an expendable booster for the proposed space transportation system shuttle for no more than $30 million per vehicle, less than half the estimated cost to modify and produce the first stage of the Saturn 5 moon rocket for the same role.

By Zack Strickland4 min

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Iata Members Aim at Charters

By Richard S. Kahn10 min