August 10, 1981

August 10, 1981

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U. S. Air Controllers Strike

Carriers Struggling to Adjust to Cutbacks

Business Flying

Sales Recovery Forecast for Turbofans

By David M. North8 min

U. S. Aviation’s Northern Frontier

Alaskan Industry Modernizes, Gears for Defense Role

By Richard G. O’Lone8 min

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U. S. Air Controllers Strike

Carriers Struggling to Adjust to Cutbacks

Schedule curtailments, passenger fears costing airlines 40% of daily traffic, about $34 million a day in revenue
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Business Flying

Sales Recovery Forecast for Turbofans

Washington —General aviation aircraft sales activity is likely to remain depressed through much of this year, but manufacturers of turbofan-powered aircraft see a faster sales recovery than the producers of turboprop and piston-powered aircraft.

By David M. North8 min

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U. S. Aviation’s Northern Frontier

Alaskan Industry Modernizes, Gears for Defense Role

Anchorage, Alaska —Changes are sweeping through every aspect of aviation in this vast state as commercial operators expand to support exploitation of the area’s energy potential and the military modernizes its air defense capability in the only spot on the globe where the U. S. and the Soviet Union face each other across a narrow body of water.

By Richard G. O’Lone8 min

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U. S. Air Controllers Strike

Faa Plans to Speed Controller Training

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Air Transport

First Boeing 767 Transport Rolls Out on Schedule

Event brightened by sales backlog, strong aircraft programs; darkened by uncertainty of future equipment demands

By Richard G. O’Lone7 min

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Avionics

Cobra Judy Phased-array Radar Tested

Boston—Cobra Judy, USAF’s shipborne phased-array radar system developed to collect data on Soviet strategic ballistic missile tests, is expected to sail to an operational base at Pearl Harbor late this year, following completion of a test and evaluation program.

By Kenneth J. Stein7 min

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Air Transport

Airbus A310 Transport Fuselage Assembly Near

By Jeffrey M. Lenorovitz Toulouse, France—Fuselage assembly of the first Airbus Industrie A310 transport is nearly complete as the European Airbus airframe consortium progresses toward the 1982 first flight of its latest derivative of the A300 aircraft family.
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U. S. Air Controllers Strike

Prestrike Plans Aid Atlantic Service

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Management

U. S., U.k. Agree on Av-8b Program

By David R. Griffiths6 min

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Space Technology

Fourteen Seek Direct Broadcast Rights

Washington—Thirteen companies have joined Communications Satellite Corp. in seeking authority from the Federal Communications Commission to launch direct broadcast satellites. Eleven of the applicants added 31 requests for operational-spacecraft launch permits to four already submitted by Comsat’s Satellite Television Corp.

By Jay C. Lowndes5 min

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