August 4, 1975

August 4, 1975

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Safety

Ntsb Assays L-382 Crash in Illinois

Management

Navy Hardest Hit By Budget Policy

By Clarence A. Robinson9 min

Avionics

Aircraft Systems Monitor Under Study

By Benjamin M. Elson8 min

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Safety

Ntsb Assays L-382 Crash in Illinois

Synopsis About 1653 CDT, May 23, 1974, Saturn Airways Flight 14 crashed about 2.6 mi. southeast of the Capital VOR, near Springfield, Ill. Three crewmembers and a route supervisor were killed. The aircraft was destroyed. The outboard section of the left wing, including the No. 1 engine, separated in flight from the remainder of the wing.
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Management

Navy Hardest Hit By Budget Policy

Decision to hold annual increases to 2% spurs critical choices on future scale of carriers, other weapon systems

By Clarence A. Robinson9 min

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Avionics

Aircraft Systems Monitor Under Study

Seattle, Wash.—Experimental systems monitor that could eliminate numerous dials and other indicators from an instrument panel or flight engineer’s console is under evaluation here to determine whether predicted benefits can be realized.

By Benjamin M. Elson8 min

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Space Technology

Astp Astronauts Avert Landing Disaster

Houston—Apollo-Soyuz Test Project astronauts methodically overcame a potentially disastrous U. S. ending to the first two-nation manned space mission. Choking from the poisonous fumes of the nitrogen tetroxide attitude control system oxidizer that were sucked into the command module, astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand and Donald K. Slayton manually activated Apollo’s landing parachute system after an unexplained failure by the crew to initiate the automatic landing sequence at the proper time.

By Erwin J. Bulban7 min

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Air Transport

Traffic Slump Eases on Atlantic

Steadily worsening losses for first four months moderate in May; carriers hope for stronger performance in summer

By Rosalind K. Ellingsworth6 min

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Air Transport

Lyon Airport Keyed to ‘support’

Lyon—Completion of a new international airport here is an example of how such a facility can be developed and constructed with the support of a normally hostile general community while satisfying business interests and airline requirements, accommodating passengers and shippers and fulfilling financial obligations.

By Laurence Doty6 min

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Editorial

Rationale for Military Exports

. . . Military exports figure largely and visibly in several major national issues. It is the issues themselves, not the arms sales (or grants), that should receive first attention, but the image of a lethal weapon going abroad looms seductively in the foreground and obscures these more important issues:
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Management

Dod Conference Report Encounters Senate Snags

By Katherine Johnsen5 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Ch-47c Utilizes Full Capabilities on Tour

Boeing Vertol CH-47C Chinook heavy-lift helicopter is being subjected to a series of full-envelope capability tests during a current nine-week sales demonstration tour of five Latin American countries. The tour thus far has included the first transcontinental crossing of South America by a helicopter.

By Cecil Brownlow4 min

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Air Transport

Twa Chief Sees ‘chaos’ as Result of Deregulation

San Francisco—Current clamor for deregulation of the U. S. airline industry is politically inspired and if successful could destroy the world’s best air transportation system, according to Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., Trans World Airlines president and board chairman.
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