October 25, 1976

October 25, 1976

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Safety

Ntsb Studies Western Runway Crash

Management

Japan Air Show Nears Maturity

By Richard G. O’Lone9 min

Space Technology

New Soil Tests Add to Martian ‘puzzle’

By Jeffrey M. Lenorovitz7 min

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Safety

Ntsb Studies Western Runway Crash

At 0743 on Mar. 31, 1975, Western Air Lines, Inc., Flight 470, overran the departure end of Runway 25 at the Natrona County International Airport, Casper, Wyo. The landing was made following a nonprecision approach on a snow-covered runway, with a following wind, and during reduced visibility.
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Management

Japan Air Show Nears Maturity

Tokyo—Intense competition for this nation’s next fighter aircraft and Japan’s dramatic acquisition of a Soviet MiG-25 injected shot of vitality into last week’s Japan International Aerospace Show. In addition, takeover of the event by Japanese industry at this time, when the international collaboration pot is boiling furiously, may signal the coming-of-age of Asia’s only major air show.

By Richard G. O’Lone9 min

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Space Technology

New Soil Tests Add to Martian ‘puzzle’

Pasadena, Calif.—No signs of organic compounds have been detected at two initial temperature cycles by the Viking 2 lander gas chromatograph experiment on a Martian soil sample that previously had been protected by a rock. The findings failed to corroborate the “weak but positive” readings transmitted earlier to Viking scientists here at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from two of the lander’s biology instruments, placing in limbo any immediate conclusions as to whether life exists in the Utopia region of Mars.

By Jeffrey M. Lenorovitz7 min

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Air Transport

Midway Bids Face Legal Issues

Efforts by two carriers to establish short-haul, high-density service from Chicago downtown airport raises policy questions

By Rosalind K. Ellingsworth6 min

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Avionics

Inflight Engine Monitoring Use Expands

Los Angeles—Navy and the Air Force are expected to make increasing use of inflight engine monitoring for high-performance tactical aircraft as a means of improving flight safety, aircraft availability and/or enhancing maintenance and logistics efficiency.

By Barry Miller5 min

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Space Technology

Salyut Failure Reflects Larger Problem

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Air Transport

Fleet Life Extension Programs Pressed

Denver—Airline engineers believe maintenance programs and airframe and engine design improvements can cope with their aging fleets as long as regulatory reform and airworthiness directives do not prompt early retirement of the aircraft.

By David M. North5 min

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Avionics

Usaf Tracking Radar Details Disclosed

By Philip J. Kiass5 min

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Air Transport

Cuba’s Abrogation of Pact Forces Tightened Security

By Laurence Doty5 min

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Editorial

A Nato Milestone

A significant milestone in improved NATO combat capability and weapons standardization was reached last week on the rolling prairies of Texas when the first full-scale development model of the General Dynamics F-16 multi-mission, multi-national air combat fighter taxied out of the hangars of the world’s largest aircraft factory under its own power and stopped in salute before 15,000 spectators and the top officials of the five countries that have bought it.

By Robert Hotz4 min

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