May 6, 1974

May 6, 1974

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Missile Engineering

U. S. Shifts Emphasis on Missile Defense

By Clarence A. Robinson15 min

Management

Top 500 Defense Dept. RDT&E Contractors

Avionics

Nav Trainer Radar Still Faces Hurdles

By Benjamin M. Elson11 min

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Missile Engineering

U. S. Shifts Emphasis on Missile Defense

Washington—U. S. emphasis has shifted from deploying operational ballistic missile defense systems like Safeguard to technology advancement in light of the restrictions imposed in the anti-ballistic missile treaty ratified by both parties on the original Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT 1).

By Clarence A. Robinson15 min

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Management

Top 500 Defense Dept. RDT&E Contractors

1 McDonnell Douglas Corp 431,313 2 Rockwell International Corp. 405,351 3 Boeing Co 401,549 4 Grumman Aerospace Corp. 333,139 5 General Electric Co. 330,123 6 Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Inc. 278,195 7 Western Electric Co., Inc. 264,699
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Avionics

Nav Trainer Radar Still Faces Hurdles

West Covina, Calif.—Large-scale digital simulation of high-resolution airborne radar imagery has proved a tough challenge to Honeywell, Inc., under contract to USAF to provide the ground-based simulator for the new Undergraduate Navigator Training System (UNTS).

By Benjamin M. Elson11 min

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Air Transport

North Atlantic Air Passenger Load Factors—Year 1973

TOTAL—BOTH DIRECTIONS Total No. of Passengers 1,859,146 1,667,267 3,526,413 1,107,934 606,587 597,503 493,015 483,583 404,126 399,316 296,504 247,531 PercentParticipation 18.6 16.6 35.2 11.1 6.1 6.0 4.9 4.8 4.0 4.0 3.0 2.5 First Class Passengers 139,674 110,384 250,058 80,399 33,568 43,749 21,308 13,392 14,607 23,469 10,185 3,162
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Air Transport

Legislation Anticipated to Tighten Hazardous Materials Regulations

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Editorial

New Arms Limit Proposed

In the current SALT 2 negotiations, the Soviets are seeking to consolidate the advantage they obtained in the interim agreement while pressing for equality in technology. Again and again when the interim agreement was before the Senate I warned that this would be the Soviet strategy at SALT 2.
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Business Flying

Bell Gears for Growing Helicopter Market

Ft. Worth—Bell Model 222 represents a management commitment of $50 million in company funds, in the firm belief that the rotary-wing industry is entering a new era of more extensive use of business and utility helicopters (AW&ST Apr. 29, p. 26).

By Erwin J. Bulban5 min

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Space Technology

NASA to Keep Helios Flight on Schedule

By Craig Covault5 min

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Air Transport

White House Pushes Policy Role

CAB participation bypassed in international transport affairs as Administration seeks solution to Pan Am, TWA difficulties

By Laurence Doty4 min

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Special Report: Hanover Air Show

Soviets to Stress Yak-40 Export Sales

II-62M, Tu-154 transports taken off international market to fill Aeroflot needs; new An-30 aircraft displayed at Hanover show

By Donald C. Winston4 min

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