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October 12, 1981

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Safety

Safety Board Cites Pilot in 727 Incident

TWA Flight Operations Safety Bulletin 79-3. On Aug. 6, 1979, TWA issued Flight Operations Safety Bulletin 79-3. The bulletin provided flightcrews with information about B-727 flight characteristics with an extended No. 7 leading edge slat, and it included operational guidance from Boeing OMB 75-7, as revised, concerning an asymmetric slat condition.

Reagan Strategic Policy

Decisions Reached on Nuclear Weapon

Failure of President to achieve ultimate solution on basing MX advanced ICBM sparks criticism in Congress, Pentagon

By Clarence A. Robinson14 min

Technical Survey: Fiber Optics

Nasa Developing New Applications

National Aeronautics and Space Administration is engaged in a variety of fiber optics programs aimed at aircraft, spacecraft and ground system applications that could profit from the high data handling capabilities and immunity to electromagnetic and radio frequency interference (EMI/RFI) inherent in the optical medium.

Technical Survey: Fiber Optics

New Classes of Optical Fibers Being Developed

Bedford, Mass. —Fiber optics is regarded by Mitre Corp. scientists here as a proved technology that has already demonstrated significant advantages in performance and cost for applications in military command, control and communications (C3) systems.

Technical Survey: Fiber Optics

French Apply Technology to Aerospace Applications

Paris—France is beginning to expand its application of fiber optics to aerospace-related applications, but general use of this technology in the demanding aircraft and space environment still is maturing. Fiber optics are starting to find their way from France’s well-developed telecommunications industry into such applications as satellite and aircraft-based systems, but a broad push into aerospace applications is only now beginning to appear.

Technical Survey: Fiber Optics

Germans Involved in Intensive Research

Stuttgart—Potential market expansion in the fiber optics field in the next 10 years is stimulating massive basic and applied research by West German electronics and communications companies, with about 10% of the future market linked to defense, avionics and other non-communications industry-related uses, according to Werner Brendel, director of the Cable Div. of Standard Elektrik Lorenz (SEL) AG here.

Technical Survey: Fiber Optics

Italians Move Cautiously Into Optical Fiber Field

Rome—The Italian industry is moving cautiously into fiber optics technology to insure that limited research and development funds are funneled into practical applications. Included in Italian efforts are space communications and aircraft avionics programs.

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