June 7, 1976

June 7, 1976

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Safety

French Inquiry Unit Details Dc-10 Crash

Management

Industry Looks to U. S. for Metrics Push

By Warren C. Wetmore8 min

Air Transport

North Atlantic Pooling Studied in Europe

By Laurence Doty8 min

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Safety

French Inquiry Unit Details Dc-10 Crash

Flight data recorder. In accordance with national and international requirements, TC-JAV was equipped with a flight data recorder, type Sundstrand Data Control, model 573 A, maker’s serial No. 2104, located under the floor on the left-hand side, alongside the cockpit voice recorder and immediately to the rear of the aft cargo door on the left-hand side.
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Management

Industry Looks to U. S. for Metrics Push

By Warren C. Wetmore8 min

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Air Transport

North Atlantic Pooling Studied in Europe

By Laurence Doty8 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

B-1 Meeting Tests for November Review

Washington—Air Force is near meeting the test goals for approval by a Defense System Acquisition Review Council in November of Rockwell International B-1 bomber production. The Defense Dept. also is seeking ways to avoid a break in the B-1 program schedule and concentrating its efforts on the joint House-Senate conference committee meeting this week.
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Space Technology

Geodetic Launches Aid Soviet Targeting

Washington—Soviet Union has been launching geodetic mission spacecraft that can provide precise gravitational data to enhance Russian intercontinental ballistic missile targeting against the U. S. References to the geodetic missions are contained in a report on Soviet space programs to be released formally later this month by the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee.

By Craig Covault7 min

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Avionics

Fuel-saving Engine Controls Studied

New York—Rapid development of microelectronic technology and the success of the supervisory digital electronic engine control on the Pratt & Whitney F100 military turbofan have led to the development of full-authority, digital electronic control systems for advanced commercial aircraft engines.

By Michael L. Yaffee6 min

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Air Transport

National Traffic Reflects Image Problem

Miami—National Airlines’ erratic post-strike traffic recovery, only a 3% gain in April and a 6% loss in May, reflects an image of unreliability the carrier has acquired with much of the general public and particularly the travel agent community.

By Rosalind K. Ellingsworth6 min

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Space Technology

Indonesia Poised for Satellite Launch

Djakarta—This developing nation will take a large step forward this summer when it puts into operation a communications satellite system that will help unite its scattered population and establish Indonesia as a technically sophisticated member of the Southeast Asia community.

By Richard G. O’Lone6 min

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Management

Nuclear Explosion Treaties Jeopardized By Loophole

Washington—Provision permitting detonation of nuclear devices with an explosive force greater than 150 kilotons, included at Soviet insistence in the recently-signed treaty permitting limited peaceful nuclear explosive (PNE) testing, may block Senate ratification of both the PNE agreement and a companion treaty limiting the size of underground nuclear weapons tests.
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Management

French Project $18-23 Billion Sales

Five year aerospace outlook by government-industry group hypothesizes high, low forecasts for overall and export revenues

By Robert R. Ropelewski6 min

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