September 12, 1977

September 12, 1977

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Special Report: NATO’s New Challenge

U. S. Funds Major Standardization Drive

By Clarence A. Robinson14 min

Space Technology

Low-cost Satellite Launcher Developed By Germans

By Robert R. Ropelewski9 min

Aeronautical Engineering

Xfv-12a Ground Tests 90% Completed

By Craig Covault7 min

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Special Report: NATO’s New Challenge

U. S. Funds Major Standardization Drive

Brussels—U. S. is providing for the first time a major infusion of funds for evaluation and joint development of European weapons systems technology aimed at effecting interoperability and standardization improvements within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

By Clarence A. Robinson14 min

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Space Technology

Low-cost Satellite Launcher Developed By Germans

Paris—Privately financed development program is under way in West Germany to build and launch by 1981 a throwaway heavy launch vehicle that could put communications and other satellites into geostationary or low-earth-orbits for half the cost of existing or planned launch vehicles.

By Robert R. Ropelewski9 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Xfv-12a Ground Tests 90% Completed

Columbus, Ohio—Navy/Rockwell International XFV-12A thrust-augmented-wing research aircraft has completed 90% of its ground test program and will begin initial tethered flight tests at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Langley Research Center in late fall.

By Craig Covault7 min

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Management

Dod Revises Policy on Export

Sweeping changes on controls will loosen restrictions on end products, tighten rules on technology transfers

By Eugene Kozicharow7 min

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Refanned Jt8d Aimed at Retrofits

East Hartford, Conn.—Pratt & Whitney’s latest addition to its workhorse JT8D turbofan family is aimed at the retrofit and derivative aircraft market in a time of increasingly stringent aircraft noise and exhaust emission rules. The refanned JT8D-209, though still a powerplant in search of a firm aircraft application, has the following design objectives: Noise: 6-8 epndb. below FAR Part 36 requirements as originally promulgated.

By Warren C. Wetmore6 min

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Space Technology

Voyager Launch Virtually Flawless

Pasadena,Calif.—Voyager 1 has been stabilized in its cruise configuration following a smooth launch onto a trajectory that will enable it to overtake its Voyager 2 companion spacecraft en route to an early 1979 encounter with Jupiter and five of its moons.

By Jeffrey M. Lenorovitz6 min

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Business Flying

Sabreliner Reorganization Under Way

St. Louis—Major reorganization of Rockwell International’s Sabreliner Div. concurrently with a new product development program is aimed at keeping the company in the increasingly competitive business jet market race. Management, marketing and long-range planning, according to Sabreliner Div. President James J. Edwards, Jr., includes.

By Erwin J. Bulban5 min

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Air Transport

Faa Proficiency Proposal Hit

Operators of transport category aircraft, ALPA marshal forces to oppose pilot monitoring as costly, unwarranted

By David M. North5 min

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Management

Iran Awacs Sale Returned to Congress

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Management

Final Carter Export Policy Year Away

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