November 3, 1975

November 3, 1975

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Safety

Training Flight Crash Assayed By Ntsb

Business Flying

General Aviation Tempo Quiekens

By Erwin J. Bulban9 min

Missile Engineering

Trident Subsystem Tests in Final Phase

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Safety

Training Flight Crash Assayed By Ntsb

Synopsis At 1645 EDT on June 24, 1974, a Grumman Model G-1159, N720Q, crashed near Kline, S. C. The aircraft, which was owned and operated by International Business Machines, Inc., was on a training flight in visual meteorological conditions.
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Business Flying

General Aviation Tempo Quiekens

Manufacturers, suppliers at NBAA annual meeting forecast record growth in new products and production capabilities

By Erwin J. Bulban9 min

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Missile Engineering

Trident Subsystem Tests in Final Phase

Navy sets 3-4 months of prototype hardware flight confidence evaluation before beginning actual test-firing of missiles
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Space Technology

Data Show Venus Young, Evolving Planet

Data and photographs returned from Venera-9 and -10 Soviet Venus lander spacecraft portray a well-lighted, rocky surface belonging to a young, evolving planet. Results of the Venera soft landers, and Soviet scientific commentary, tend to support the idea that Venus is a planet in an early cool-down phase of evolution rather than in a final stage of suffocation in a thickening atmospheric greenhouse.

By David A. Brown7 min

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Air Transport

L. A. Helicopter Fleet Keyed to S-55s

By Donald E. Fink6 min

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Avionics

Navy Studies Sea Phoenix Adaptation

Culver City, Calif.—Feasibility of adapting the Hughes Aircraft Phoenix long-range air-to-air missile and its accompanying track-while-scan fire control system from the Grumman F-14 air-superiority fighter to provide surface-based defense of aircraft carriers from cruise missiles is under study by the Navy.

By Barry Miller6 min

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Editorial

U. S. Flag Carriers’ Plight

I want to talk with you about a situation with which I know you are all concerned—the plight of American flag carriers in their effort to survive against competition from subsidized foreign airlines. It is a strange and seemingly contradictory fact, but it is true that Pan Am’s [Pan American World Airways] profit in August of this year was the highest in their history—$23.6 million—yet the company will still show an operating loss for 1975.
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Air Transport

Study Backs Fuel-saving Design

Analysis of proposed 10-year, $670-million NASA effort cites transport concepts with usage reductions up to 45%

By Craig Covault5 min

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Business Flying

Nasa to Test Hydrogen-enriched Fuel

Wichita—National Aeronautics and Space Administration program to develop hydrogen-enriched fuel technology for use in business aircraft is scheduled to enter the flight test stage here in September, 1976, utilizing a twin-engine Beech 60 Duke test-bed aircraft.

By Erwin J. Bulban5 min

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Management

Better Soviet Budget Evaluation Sought

By Katherine Johnsen5 min

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