December 23, 1974

December 23, 1974

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Missile Engineering

Standard Weapons Keyed to Army Missile

Business Flying

Manpower, Materials Limit Production

Avionics

Multi-Function Hardware Gains Exploited

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Missile Engineering

Standard Weapons Keyed to Army Missile

Washington—Selection of a European competitor for Army’s short-range air defense system (SHORADS) missile (AW&ST July 29, p. 21) and congressional funding for U. S. production of the choice are considered the key to weapons standardization within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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Business Flying

Manpower, Materials Limit Production

Dallas—U.S. business and utility aircraft production schedules are now keyed to the availability of manpower and materials, rather than actual demand, which continues strong despite zero or even negative industrial growth. Field inventories remain low and the industry in the past year has been playing catch-up in trying to reduce backlogs that continued to swell following the temporary fuel crisis of last winter, which resulted in some brief production retrenchment.
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Avionics

Multi-Function Hardware Gains Exploited

Dramatic gains in airborne avionics equipment capabilities, reflecting the continuing advances in microcircuitry, have been evident this year as new, compact multi-function hardware increasingly became available to the business and corporate aircraft operator.
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Aeronautical Engineering

☺Year Shaped by Progress in Prototyping

“Year of the Prototype” is what 1974 has shaped up to be in aeronautical engineering, most importantly with the first flights of the competing Air Force air combat fighter (ACF) prototypes, the General Dynamics YF-16 and the Northrop YF-17.
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Space Technology

Year's Flights Enrich Planetary Science

Washington—Bountiful return of scientific information provided by the Manner 10 and Pioneer 10 and 11 planetary spacecraft as well as the Skylab manned program highlighted U.S. space research in 1974. But looking toward the near future, inflationary pressures are forcing National Aeronautics and Space Administration into reevaluations of what the agency can achieve with stable funding, but a shrinking dollar value.
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Air Transport

Multitude of Factors Clouding Outlook

Washington—Outlook for the air transport industry is obscured by a multitude of events during the past year, some of which were predictable, while others might have been foreseen had government and industry been more vigilant. These factors, all of which will affect the future and some of which could transform the world’s air transportation system, include:
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News of the Week

News Digest

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Message From the Publisher

It looks like the pattern of aerospace business cycles of the last several decades is repeating itself again in the decade of the 1970s. Aerospace business, which often runs contrary to the general economic climate, has displayed a pattern of weak market conditions in part of each 10-year interval, followed by a strengthening, and then reaching a peak of activity at the end of the period.

By Reginald A. Hubley4 min

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News of the Week

Bill Voted to Block Airline Discrimination

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News of the Week

SMS Yields Most Planned Data Despite Communication Problem

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