January 5, 1976

January 5, 1976

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Safety

NTSB Reports on Crash of Boeing 727

Management

SALT ‘Hold' Said to Hit Cabinet

By Clarence A. Robinson10 min

Air Transport

Major Effort Salvages New York Service

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Safety

NTSB Reports on Crash of Boeing 727

About 1926 EST on Dec. 1, 1974, Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727-251, crashed about 3.2 naut. mi. west of Thiells, N. Y. Flight 6231 was a ferry flight to Buffalo, N. Y. The accident occurred about 12 min. after the flight had departed John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, N. Y.
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Management

SALT ‘Hold' Said to Hit Cabinet

Former State Dept. official testifies Kissinger refused requests to brief secretaries on raw violation intelligence

By Clarence A. Robinson10 min

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Air Transport

Major Effort Salvages New York Service

Airlines work through night after blast shuts down LaGuardia to reschedule and shift many flights to Newark and Kennedy
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Aeronautical Engineering

USAF Tests RPRV Landing Techniques

Edwards AFB, Calif.—Remotely piloted research vehicle (RPRV) project team at National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Flight Research Center here has used the final series of flights with its subscale model of the USAF/McDonnell Douglas F-15 fighter to perfect horizontal landing techniques that will reduce the cost and complexity of future RPRV recovery procedures.

By Donald E. Fink9 min

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Air Transport

Further Time Required for CAS Choice

By Philip J. Klass8 min

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Business Flying

Swearingen Develops Air Ambulance

Metro 4A turboprop-powered commuter/business airplane, configured as a sophisticated airborne critical-care emergency ambulance, has been developed by Swearingen Aircraft Corp., San Antonio, Tex. The first of this special configuration has been delivered to a foreign government and company officials say that they are making presentations to a number of other interested prospects overseas and in the U. S.

By Erwin J. Bulban7 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

MRCA Production Decision Due Soon

Munich—Quantity production of the European multirole combat aircraft (MRCA) variable-geometry fighter is expected to get under way early in 1976, following a tripartite milestone meeting to assess the current flight test program. Executives of Panavia, the consortium formed to build the aircraft, and TurboUnion, the RB.199 engine development team, are looking for a favorable report from defense officials of Great Britain, Italy and West Germany, both on cost control and on flight testing.

By Herbert J. Coleman7 min

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Avionics

Expansion of Military Satcom Planned

Los Angeles—Defense Dept, is planning a significant expansion in its military communications satellite capability to handle an anticipated rise in traffic and number of users over the next decade and as a hedge against future development setbacks or booster failures like those that have hampered earlier growth in defense satellite communications service.

By Barry Miller7 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

B-1 Readied for High-Speed Testing

By Donald E. Fink6 min

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Aeronutronic Ford Intelsat 5 Concept Shown

Apollo Provides Mineral Detection Data

By Richard G. O’Lone5 min

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