July 21, 1975

July 21, 1975

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Safety

French Inquiry Board Traces Flight Paths

Air Transport

Carrier Seeks Small Air Package Control

By Charles E. Schneider11 min

Special Report: Egypt

Arabs Near Satcom Network Go-ahead

By Robert R. Ropelewski9 min

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Safety

French Inquiry Board Traces Flight Paths

The navigational aids covering the routes followed by the two Spanish aircraft were principally: In the case of Coronado BX 400 on route W187: Bilbao VOR (BLV 115.0 mc.), Nantes VOR (NTS 115.5 mc.) with which a DME was associated (Channel 102), Nantes medium-frequency radio beacon (NTS 277 kc.).
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Air Transport

Carrier Seeks Small Air Package Control

Memphis—Federal Express Corp., small-package airline based here specializing in door-to-door, guaranteed overnight service to more than 70 cities, is developing expansion plans designed to get control of the small-package air freight business in the U. S.

By Charles E. Schneider11 min

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Special Report: Egypt

Arabs Near Satcom Network Go-ahead

Cairo—Arab communications ministers are scheduled to meet here in September to approve, organize and fund an Arab satellite communication network that could begin operating as early as 1977, thus opening a broad new market for Western technology and hardware.

By Robert R. Ropelewski9 min

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Space Technology

U. K. Aid Seen on Lunar Polar Orbiter

Greenbelt, Md.—Lunar polar orbiter (LPO) mission proposed as a Fiscal 1977 new start by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s lunar programs office could involve substantial participation by the Science Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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Special Report: ASTP

Astp Validates Hardware, Plans

Question remains whether mission produced more engineering, scientific or applications data than would unilateral effort
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Air Transport

Capacity Boost Spurs Pakistani Carrier

Karachi, Pakistan—Pakistan International Airlines has moved into a profit position by sharply increasing capacity, introducing new management techniques and by expanding its ethnic and business travel into the Arabian Gulf states.

By Herbert J. Coleman8 min

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Special Report: ASTP

Precise Counts Precede Astp Launches

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Special Report: Egypt

Technical Training Effort Growing

Egyptians building new school near Cairo to exploit advances in experience, knowledge in technologies

By Robert R. Ropelewski6 min

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Avionics

Digital Electronic Engine Control Studied

San Francisco—Flight tests are to begin by early fall to determine whether the substitution of digital electronics for conventional hydromechanical control of a supersonic jet engine and its inlet can improve aircraft performance and stability.

By Benjamin M. Elson6 min

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Air Transport

Intermodal Cargo Test Decision Nears

Oakland, Calif.—Availability and cost of a USAF/Lockheed C-5A transport are the critical factors in the upcoming decision as to whether an air cargo experiment called Project Intact will move into its operational phase. Backers of Project Intact, an acronym for “intermodal air cargo test,” hope to initiate commercial cargo flights this fall, thus launching the most intensive effort yet to advance the air cargo industry (Aw&sT Oct. 28, 1974, p. 107; Mar. 25, 1974, p. 24).

By Richard G. O’Lone5 min

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