May 12, 1975

May 12, 1975

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Space Technology

Astronauts’ Tyuratam Tour Restricted

By Craig Covault10 min

Management

Industry Asks Depreciation Change Delay

By William A. Shumann10 min

Space Technology

Help Abroad Key to Laser Mission Goals

By Craig Covault9 min

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Space Technology

Astronauts’ Tyuratam Tour Restricted

U. S. astronauts who became the first Americans to visit the Soviet Tyuratam launch site Apr. 28 received a “stark and sterile” tour of the facility that was rigidly restricted to Apollo-Soyuz Test Project hardware. The astronauts saw evidence of the massive Soviet space effort under way at Tyuratam.

By Craig Covault10 min

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Management

Industry Asks Depreciation Change Delay

By William A. Shumann10 min

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Space Technology

Help Abroad Key to Laser Mission Goals

Foreign cooperation will be needed to allow placing of two laser stations on any given earth tectonic plate

By Craig Covault9 min

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Business Flying

Modified Learjet 35 Planned for Mapping

Development is under way of a four-engine version of the Gates Learjet Model 35 as a 65,000-ft.-altitude aerial mapping platform and of a high-resolution camera and computerized processing system to go with it. Gates Learjet is doing the aircraft development and Itek Corp. the camera and computerized processing system, but the aircraft will be operated by a newly formed company based at Boulder, Colo., called LearTek Corp.

By William H. Gregory8 min

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Safety

Ntsb Details Lightplane, F-106 Collision

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Aeronautical Engineering

F-18 to Incorporate Several Design Changes From F-17

Hawthorne, Calif.—McDonnell Douglas/Northrop F-18, selected by the Navy as its air combat fighter (NACF), is a direct derivative of the F-17 Northrop designed for USAF’s air combat fighter competition with several significant configuration changes to adapt it for carrier deck operations, improve its slow speed flight characteristics and extend its internal fuel combat radius.

By Donald E. Fink8 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Dod Sets August F-18 Decision

Four months of McDonnell Douglas/Northrop design work, further engine studies by GE to precede DSARC on development

By Clarence A. Robinson7 min

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Air Transport

April Traffic Drops More Than Forecast

Some industry officials fear deeper and longer slump than expected; others see bottom reached and summer recovery

By Charles E. Schneider6 min

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Editorial

Some Salt Alternatives

Before dealing with SALT in the context of the Vladivostok accord, I believe it would be helpful to recall a few of the basic historical points. It was in the late fifties, even before Sputnik, that many of us became concerned with the stability of the nuclear relationship between the Soviet Union and ourselves.
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Avionics

Guidance Device Set for Pershing Tests

Small device that can determine an aircraft’s or missile’s location by reference to an aerial photo or radarscope image previously made of the area, to enable a guidance system to direct the vehicle to a designated target, will be tested this spring for possible use on the Army/Martin Marietta Pershing 2 surface-to-surface missile.

By Philip J. Klass5 min

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