March 18, 1974

March 18, 1974

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Air Transport

Charles De Gaulle Airport Service Starts

By Robert R. Ropelewski10 min

Aeronautical Engineering

Tanker/cargo Role Studied for Dc-10

By Donald E. Fink10 min

Missile Engineering

Navy Spurs Industry Missile Role

By Clarence A. Robinson9 min

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Air Transport

Charles De Gaulle Airport Service Starts

Paris—Paris Airport Authority inaugurated its third major airport last week with the start of commercial air service at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport 15 mi. north of Paris, near the village of Roissy-en-France. The new airport, assigned the ICAO identification code CDG, was formerly called Roissy-en-France and was originally designated Paris-Nord.

By Robert R. Ropelewski10 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Tanker/cargo Role Studied for Dc-10

By Donald E. Fink10 min

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Missile Engineering

Navy Spurs Industry Missile Role

Service plans to bring contractors into development projects at earlier stage; Agile program example of new approach

By Clarence A. Robinson9 min

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Special Report: Aerospace Materials Shortages

Shortages Bring Industry Stockpiling

Manufacturers see need for building materials inventory to meet contract obligations; others fear ‘pack-ratting’ adds to scarcity
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Aeronautical Engineering

Boeing Freezes Amst Prototype Design

Seattle—Boeing Co. has frozen the configuration of its YC-14 design and is cutting metal for its entry in USAF’s advanced medium STOL transport (AMST) prototype competition. Like its competitor, McDonnell Douglas Corp., Boeing has been forced to throttle back sharply on the AMST effort (AW&ST Feb. 4, p. 34), and uncertainty about the aircraft’s future has put a severe strain on the program’s schedule.

By Richard G. O’Lone6 min

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Space Technology

Esro Acts to Pick Spacelab Contractor

Geneva—Request for proposals for Europe’s $370-million Spacelab participation in the U. S. space shuttle program has been delivered by the European Space Research Organization to competing teams led by Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm and ERNO.

By Donald C. Winston6 min

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Air Transport

Load Factor Growth Continues

Concern grows that service standards may slip in some markets; schedule cutbacks, layoffs fail to reduce costs significantly

By Laurence Doty6 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Dod Backing Sought for F-14x Choice

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Avionics

Weather Recon System Testing Planned

Bedford, Mass.—New USAF Air Weather Reconnaissance System is expected to be ready for operational flight testing by early summer with a prime objective of developing live data demonstrating “significant improvement” in providing more complete, more accurate information to Air Weather Service.

By Kenneth J. Stein6 min

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Editorial

New Strategic Nuclear Policy

There have been two aspects in the development of Soviet strategic forces, one long-term and the other more recent, that affect our present strategic forces planning and the deterrent value of our strategic systems. The long-term and quite well-known factor is that over many years the Soviets have been steadily closing the gap in nuclear capabilities between them and us.
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