August 25, 1975

August 25, 1975

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Editorial

Fleet Planning and Flight Planning

Management

Backfire Draws Focus in SALT

By Clarence A. Robinson

Aeronautical Engineering

Work Begins on Fourth B-1 Test Aircraft

By Donald E. Fink

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Editorial

Fleet Planning and Flight Planning

Fleet planning and flight planning have something more in common than they used to. Both are turning into ways of generating or conserving cash for airlines as well as spending it. Surplus aircraft sales—once a path to a small but pleasant capital gain for the selling airline and added useful life rather than a trip to the scrap pile for an airplane—now are becoming an essential to keep fleets and costs in balance.
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Management

Backfire Draws Focus in SALT

Washington—U. S. is exploring a range of options with the Soviet Union that would bring the USSR’s Tupolev Backfire bomber under some control in a new strategic arms limitation agreement based on the Vladivostok accord. Soviets have been adamant in their contention that the Backfire was not included in the Vladivostok aide-memoire and should not be counted in the aggregate level of 2,400 strategic delivery vehicles.

By Clarence A. Robinson

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Aeronautical Engineering

Work Begins on Fourth B-1 Test Aircraft

Los Angeles—Rockwell International will start preliminary work this week on a fourth B-1 bomber flight test aircraft based on USAF’s recent award of a $297.3-million addition to the company’s basic research and development contract.

By Donald E. Fink

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B-1 Employment

Los Angeles—More than 2,200 employes scheduled to be dropped from Rockwell International’s B-1 Div. by January, 1976, will be retained now that USAF has awarded a supplemental contract for construction of a fourth flight test aircraft.
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Management

Repatriation Offered to Instructors in Iran

Bell Helicopter International has offered to repatriate to the U. S. the instructor pilots it fired in Iran as the result of a labor dispute. Approximately 140 of 150 instructor pilots, working for BHI under contract to train Imperial Iranian Army aviation pilots on Bell AH-1J and Model 214A helicopters, were terminated by the company when they stayed off the job to protest what they termed intolerable working conditions and a pay scale that had fallen behind rapidly inflated living costs.
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Aeronautical Engineering

Major Modifications to Harrier Proposed

Marines plan to modify two existing Hawker Siddeley AV-8A vertical-takeoff-and-landing attack aircraft to an advanced AV-8B configuration as part of a development program aimed at bringing the aircraft to operational status by mid-1983.

By David A. Brown

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General Aviation Exports Up

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Aeronautical Engineering

F-27 Maritime Version Development Begins

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Space Technology

Wide-Body Expertise Urged for Shuttle

Washington—Independent space shuttle technical review team has recommended that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration use wide-body jet transport expertise to validate the maintainability and redundant systems capability of the current space shuttle design.

By Craig Covault

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Slayton Undergoing Surgery

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