July 7, 1980

July 7, 1980

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Air Transport

Evergreen Seeks Larger Transport Role

By Richard G. O’Lone

Space Technology

European Space Unit to Get Proposal on Comet Flyby

By Craig Covault

Avionics

Traffic Information Funds Uncertain

By Benjamin M. Elson

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Air Transport

Evergreen Seeks Larger Transport Role

McMinnville, Ore.—The Evergreen organization, whose bewildering variety of aircraft have handled every kind of flying job from bug spraying to transporting the Shah of Iran, is serving notice that it intends to make its presence felt in the world of scheduled passenger operations.

By Richard G. O’Lone

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Space Technology

European Space Unit to Get Proposal on Comet Flyby

Washington—Ten-year effort to define a mission to a comet will near culmination July 9 in Paris when the European Space Agency’s science program committee receives a formal proposal for a European/U. S. spacecraft to intercept Halley’s Comet.

By Craig Covault

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Avionics

Traffic Information Funds Uncertain

San Francisco—Uncertain funding picture could significantly affect the pace and scope of an investigation of a cockpit display concept that may allow pilots to assume responsibility under instrument conditions for some air traffic control functions now exercised by ground controllers.

By Benjamin M. Elson

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Aeronautical Engineering

Technology Upgrades Search, Rescue

March AFB, Calif. —Application of advanced technology in aerial search and rescue operations is beginning to change a discipline that relies largely on the skills of airborne teams working under both combat and peacetime conditions.

By Jeffrey M. Lenorovitz

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Business Flying

NASA Pilot Advisory System Tested

By Alton K. Marsh

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Aeronautical Engineering

USAF Updates Nuclear Capable F-llls

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Air Transport

Fuel Costs Hasten VIASA Planning

Caracas, Venezuela—Combined pressures of soaring fuel costs and a softening of the national economy have forced Venezuelan International Airways (VIASA) to consolidate some of its prime routes and have added impetus to its plans for reengining or replacing older, less efficient narrow-body equipment.

By Donald E. Fink

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Management

Lull in Vietnamese Thai Invasion Puzzling

Timing at start of monsoon season, thrust away from refugee centers also raise questions among observers

By David R. Griffiths

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Avionics

Filter Center

Pending a higher-level USAF decision as to whether to proceed with a common multimode radar development (AW&ST June 2, p. 61), the Aeronautical Systems Div. plans to request industry proposals in September for full-scale engineering development of a new radar for use on the Boeing B-52G/H aircraft and to release a draft specification for industry comment in August.
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Air Transport

FAA Reviewing DC-9 Super 80 Program

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