July 5, 1976

July 5, 1976

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Management

Nato Agrees on Air Warfare Doctrine

By Clarence A. Robinson12 min

Management

Airborne Command Post Costs Pared

By Benjamin M. Elson11 min

Space Technology

Shuttle Engine Delays Overcome

By Craig Covault10 min

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Management

Nato Agrees on Air Warfare Doctrine

Washington—North Atlantic Treaty Organization leaders have reached agreement on air warfare doctrine to enhance standardization within the alliance while accommodating operational preferences and equipment of the various forces.

By Clarence A. Robinson12 min

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Management

Airborne Command Post Costs Pared

USAF and Boeing say they have resolved cost overrun problems, cutting one aircraft from program, redesigning remaining six

By Benjamin M. Elson11 min

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Space Technology

Shuttle Engine Delays Overcome

Bay St. Louis, Miss.—Rocketdyne space shuttle main engine (SSME) development program at the National Space Technology Laboratories here has overcome earlier delays and should enter its critical design review this September with most planned tests completed.

By Craig Covault10 min

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Air Transport

Special Panel to Study Bermuda

U. S. organizes interagency task force to analyze worldwide impact expected from U. K. termination notice on agreement

By Rosalind K. Ellingsworth7 min

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Space Technology

New Viking 1 Landing Site Selected

Pasadena, Calif.—Viking program officials decided late last week to prepare for a landing of the Viking 1 spacecraft, now orbiting Mars, in an area to the northwest of the original preselected landing site. Program officials said that the decision was made primarily for maximum survivability of the lander, with no consideration of the biological or geological interest of the site.

By Barry Miller7 min

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Missile Engineering

New Harpoon Testing Keyed to Review

Washington—Navy expects to complete a program review this month of the McDonnell Douglas AGM-84A Harpoon anti-ship missile to obtain release of the remaining Fiscal 1976 weapons procurement funds and plans to resume operational evaluation testing in August.
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Management

Payments Spur Multinational Guidelines

Paris—Twenty-four nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has issued a set of guidelines for multinational enterprises that, if followed, could affect many major U. S. and European aerospace firms in the conduct of their marketing, finance, employment, technological and taxpaying activities abroad.

By Robert R. Ropelewski7 min

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Management

Congress Clears Defense Fiscal 1977 Authorization

Washington—Congress last week cleared a $32.5-billion weapons systems authorization for Fiscal 1977 for the President’s signature. It was $7.5 billion more than the $25 billion provided for Fiscal 1976 research and development and procurement.

By Katherine Johnsen7 min

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Avionics

Collision Avoidance System Tests Set

Atlantic City—Formal flight evaluation of an adaptive beacon-based collision avoidance system (B-CAS) is scheduled to begin this month at the Federal Aviation Administration’s test facility here. Initial flight test program, conducted from FAA’s National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center (Nafec), is designed to evaluate the feasibility of a completely passive operational mode incorporated in the automatic B-CAS concept evolved by George B. Litchford, president of Litchford Electronics (AW&ST Sept. 20, 1971. p. 74; Sept. 16, 1968, p. 165).

By Kenneth J. Stein6 min

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Space Technology

Scientists Puzzled By New Data on Cosmonaut’s Red Cell Loss

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