November 10, 1975

November 10, 1975

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International Air Transport Issue; New Technology's Challenge to Fuel/Cost Spiral

Airline Profit Pinch Clouds Harvest of Gains

By William H. Gregory15 min

International Air Transport Issue; New Technology's Challenge to Fuel/Cost Spiral

Builders Vie for Short/medium Market

By Donald E. Fink14 min

International Air Transport Issue; New Technology's Challenge to Fuel/Cost Spiral

Wider Use of Digital Techniques Seen

By Barry Miller13 min

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International Air Transport Issue; New Technology's Challenge to Fuel/Cost Spiral

Airline Profit Pinch Clouds Harvest of Gains

New York-Enough new technology is at hand or clearly on the horizon to build a more economic, lower fuel consumption commercial transport, but the regulatory, financial and business outlook is so bizarre that the airlines cannot count on tapping the benefits.

By William H. Gregory15 min

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Builders Vie for Short/medium Market

Los Angeles—Each of the three major U. S. commercial transport manufacturers is concentrating on the shortto medium-haul market of the 1980s, but each is following essentially different design paths to reach that common goal. All three companies—Boeing, Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas—agree there is an emerging need for a 180-200 passenger aircraft with operating economics that meet the requirements of the 1980s market.

By Donald E. Fink14 min

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Wider Use of Digital Techniques Seen

Aircraft manufacturers are expected to make significant inroads in applying digital techniques to next generation new or derivative commercial air transports, prompted by potentially attractive savings in equipment cost of ownership and fuel savings.

By Barry Miller13 min

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Airlines Weigh Nasa Technology Studies

New York—Airline engineering executives are supporting National Aeronautics and Space Administration efforts to advance transport technology, though many harbor doubts about specific areas of study. Not all of the commentary is from the sidelines.
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International Air Transport Issue; New Technology's Challenge to Fuel/Cost Spiral

Short-haul Designs Include Trade-offs

Moffett Field, Calif.-Aeronautical and flight systems research here is aimed at developing technological options that will permit a wide range of trade-offs among cost, performance, traffic and environmental factors in the design of short-haul transports for the 1980s and beyond.

By Benjamin M. Elson11 min

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Nasa 737 Tackles Six Research Goals

Hampton, Va.-Active flight research program employing National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Boeing 737 terminal configured vehicle (TCV) is getting under way with initial emphasis on a joint NASA-Federal Aviation Administration effort that will demonstrate the capabilities of the U. S.-endorsed microwave landing system (MLS) concept.

By Kenneth J. Stein10 min

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Langley Presses Fuel Efficiency Programs

Hampton, Va.—National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Langley Research Center is mounting a multipronged attack on the problems associated with fuel conservation in commercial transport aircraft, but also is maintaining a modest effort aimed at improving the speed performance of such aircraft.

By Warren C. Wetmore10 min

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U. K. Firms Juggling Ties with Common Market, U. S.

By Herbert J. Coleman10 min

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Europeans Shaping New Transport Plan

Paris—Assn. of European Aerospace Manufacturers (AECMA) and the European Economic Community (EEC) are working to define a new line of European commercial transport aircraft to compete with U. S.-built transports in the next major round of airline equipment purchases.
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Cabinet Shifts May Speed Salt

Schlesinger opposition to U. S. concessions in arms talks only one of many conflicts leading toward his dismissal

By Clarence A. Robinson9 min

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