October 4, 1976

October 4, 1976

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Safety

Ntsb Analyzes California Collision

Aviation Week Pilot Report

Yc-15 Holds Few Transitional Problems

By David M. North10 min

Air Transport

Anti-collision Program Detailed

By Philip J. Klass8 min

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Safety

Ntsb Analyzes California Collision

Golden West Airlines, Inc., Flight 261, a de Havilland Twin Otter, and a CessnAir Aviation, Inc., Cessna 150 collided in flight near Whittier, Calif. The accident occurred during daylight hours, at approximately 4:07 p. m., PST, Jan. 9, 1975.
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Aviation Week Pilot Report

Yc-15 Holds Few Transitional Problems

Andrews AFB, Md.—McDonnell Douglas YC-15 STOL (short-takeoff-and-landing) prototype, a candidate for the U. S. Air Force advanced medium STOL transport (AMST) program, gives conventional air transport pilots a new set of performance parameters, but few difficulties for transition to them.

By David M. North10 min

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Air Transport

Anti-collision Program Detailed

FAA’s 10-year effort to eliminate hazard will not involve regulatory action, new user hardware for first two years

By Philip J. Klass8 min

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Toufanian Letter to Gavin Hits Grumman’s Handling of Fees in Iranian F-14 Sales

Tehran—Following is the complete text of the letter from Gen. Hassan Toufanian, Iranian vice minister of war for armaments, to Grumman Corp. president Joseph G. Gavin Jr., disputing the latter’s recent testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee subcommittee on multinational relations:
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Avionics

Heating Speeds Microcircuit Screening

New test procedure for screening out potentially faulty microcircuits quickly and more accurately predicting mean time between failure has demonstrated its basic value and will be incorporated soon into MIL-STD-883 as a manufacturer-user option.

By Philip J. Klass7 min

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Management

Grumman Fees Spark New Controversy

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Avionics

Simulators Slash Pilot Transition Time

Seattle—Boeing Co. has added out-the-window scene generators to its flight simulators, thereby enabling its customer support organization to trim 12 of the 18 flight hours formerly scheduled for each pilot training for transition to Boeing jet aircraft.

By Benjamin M. Elson6 min

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Avionics

Dod to Push Ecm Commonality

New Pentagon policy on greater interservice cooperation also will require more modest objectives on future efforts
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Space Technology

New Nasa Aeronautics Stress Sought

By Eugene Kozicharow5 min

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Editorial

A New Space Era

A new era in space began last month as the first orbiter of the space shuttle system was towed out of its factory framework into the bright desert sunlight at Palmdale, Calif. The new shape of space travel is certainly quite different from anything we have seen in 40 years of watching flying machines.

By Robert Hotz4 min

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