August 26, 1974

August 26, 1974

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Avionics

Kc-135 Tests Advanced Instruments

By Philip J. Klass15 min

Management

Snecma Aims at Wider Export Market

By Robert R. Ropelewski13 min

Space Technology

Remote Sensing Refined for Varied Uses

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Avionics

Kc-135 Tests Advanced Instruments

‘Speckled Trout' aircraft serves as USAF flying testbed for automatic landing systems and ‘4-D’ terminal navaids

By Philip J. Klass15 min

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Management

Snecma Aims at Wider Export Market

Pans—Limited range of aircraft engines with a broad domestic and export market appeal is considered the key to long-term planning at Snecma, France’s largest aircraft engine manufacturer. The company has never had an especially large selection of engines on its product list when compared to other major engine manufacturers, and officials of the firm believe it should stay this way.

By Robert R. Ropelewski13 min

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Space Technology

Remote Sensing Refined for Varied Uses

Company utilizes spacecraft, aircraft and surface data to generate oil, mineral, agricultural business prospects
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Aeronautical Engineering

Nasa Seeks Clean Combustors By 1976

Cleveland—National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Lewis Research Center here is making a direct frontal attack on jet engine pollutants that could lead to demonstrations of new clean combustors in full-scale engines starting in 1976.

By Michael L. Yaffee9 min

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Air Transport

Planning, Scheduling Priorities Changing

Management shifts at Pan Am and American seen as reflecting evolution of their relative status in airlines’ organization

By William H. Gregory6 min

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Management

Bank Consortium Negotiating F-14 Aid

By Clarence A. Robinson6 min

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Air Transport

Airlift Aids Stranded Court Line Tourists

By Herbert J. Coleman5 min

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Management

Exports to Set Record in 1975

Deliveries to hit $7.8 billion that year, but outlook for future sales is clouded by questions on inflation

By Cecil Brownlow5 min

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Editorial

Combating Materials Shortages

. . . We foresee that negotiations on an improved framework for dealing with short supply and export control issues will follow two separate tracks. One involves the possible exchange of specific commitments on individual commodities of interest to different countries and the establishment of the conditions and framework necessary for the exchange of such commitments.
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Management

Senate Votes $5.6-billion Defense Cut

By Katherine Johnsen5 min

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