July 14, 1980

July 14, 1980

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Aeronautical Engineering

Composite Wind Turbines Gain Favor

By Jay C. Lowndes14 min

Space Technology

Two-step Operational Landsat Plan Set

By Craig Covault12 min

First Half Trunk Traffic Sags

Usair Counters Forecast, Extends Record Profits

By Michael Feazel10 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Composite Wind Turbines Gain Favor

Washington—Composites are challenging articulated metal as the preferred approach to fabricating rotor blades for large-scale wind turbine generators. Interior Dept.’s Water and Power Resources Service, formerly the Bureau of Reclamation, chose for its wind-power facility planned near Medicine Bow, Wyo., Hamilton Standard Div.’s 4-megawatt WTS-4 design with a fiberglass rotor over the all-steel 2.5 megawatt MOD-2 by Boeing Engineering and Construction Co.

By Jay C. Lowndes14 min

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Space Technology

Two-step Operational Landsat Plan Set

Washington—Commerce Dept, will propose an operational Landsat remote sensing system starting with a seven-year, $1.05-billion interim Landsat D technology phase followed by a fully operational system centered on solid-state multispectral linear arrays and costing $2-2.5 billion over 10 years.

By Craig Covault12 min

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First Half Trunk Traffic Sags

Usair Counters Forecast, Extends Record Profits

USAir continues to earn record profits in 1980 because it emphasizes profitability over “glamour,” because of its heavy concentration on business rather than discretionary travel and because it, like most regional airlines, is especially benefiting from deregulation.

By Michael Feazel10 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Sac Companion Trainer Effort Refined

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Soviets in Afghanistan

Afghan Invasion Likened to 1968 Action

Eyewitness account of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan by an American observer recently returned from that country indicates that Russian military planners have continued to update the vertical envelopment tactics used so effectively in the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.

By Donald E. Fink8 min

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Management

U. S. Spurring Nato Standardization

By Eugene Kozicharow7 min

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Business Flying

Cessna Modifying Design of Citation 3

Wichita—Cessna Aircraft is incorporating design improvements and making corrective modifications to its new Citation 3 business jet aircraft following completion of some test flying. It is also stretching the aircraft’s remaining flight testing, certification and production schedule (AW&ST July 7, p. 24).

By David M. North7 min

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Kwajalein Sensor Role

Krems Facility Supports Advanced Technology

Kwajalein, Marshall Islands—Six specialized sensors here play a key role in the validation of concepts and development of technology and hardware for U. S. strategic missiles, both offensive and defensive. The instrumentation group includes three high-performance, high-power radars and three infrared sensors—two passive and one active.

By Benjamin M. Elson7 min

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Altair To Enhance Space Surveillance

Multistatic Mode Raises Radar Accuracy

Kwajalein, Marshall Islands—Installation of receiver systems at points remote from two powerful tracking radars has converted the radars into a multistatic measurement system that is expected to produce significantly more accurate tracking data than could be obtained heretofore when the radars operated in the conventional monostatic, or single-location, mode.
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First Half Trunk Traffic Sags

Common Market Planning Traffic Control Upgrade

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