May 3, 1982

May 3, 1982

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Aviation Week Pilot Report:

Calspan Learjet Provides Training Aid

By David M. North12 min

Avionics

Sensor Monitors Aircraft's Systems

By Philip J. Klass10 min

Space Technology

Simulation Verifies Telescope Servicing

By Craig Covault9 min

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Aviation Week Pilot Report:

Calspan Learjet Provides Training Aid

Patuxent River, Md. —Calspan Corp.’s Gates Learjet Model 24, modified to provide variable stability and control, offers test pilot students here and at Edwards AFB, Calif., the capability to evaluate the flying qualities attributed to a range of aircraft.

By David M. North12 min

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Avionics

Sensor Monitors Aircraft's Systems

The performance of every main avionic subsystem and sensor on the Boeing 757 and 767 will be monitored continuously in flight, a malfunctioning unit will be disconnected automatically and a report on all malfunctions during the flight will be stored in an on-board central maintenance control display processor (MCDP).

By Philip J. Klass10 min

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Space Technology

Simulation Verifies Telescope Servicing

Huntsville, Ala.—Space-suited technicians using Marshall Space Flight Center’s underwater neutral buoyancy simulator are verifying the procedures and hardware that will be used by astronauts working outside the shuttle to service the Space Telescope as the observatory flies 300 mi. above the Earth.

By Craig Covault9 min

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Air Transport

Eastern Wins Braniff Routes

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Missile Engineering

Administration Refines Mx Basing Plan

By Clarence A. Robinson,7 min

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Letters to the Editor

I recently attended a luncheon meeting of the American Astronautical Society (AAS) featuring Vic Reis, deputy director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, as the guest speaker. It would be inaccurate to say that Reis actually spoke at the luncheon.
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Management

Negotiators Reach Defense Cut Accord

Reagan Administration agrees to a reduction of $5-billion for Fiscal 1983; Senate expected to use it as working figure

By Alton K. Marsh6 min

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Management

New Order Dip Threatens Airframe Makers’ Future

By Richard G. O’Lone6 min

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Management

Cuban Military Forces Being Upgraded

Key West, Fla. —Military modernization under way for the past five years has given Cuba the capability to obstruct Gulf Coast shipments to North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, and U. S. strategies are responding by developing and continually updating Caribbean Basin war plans that largely had been ignored for nearly 20 years.

By Edward H. Kolcum5 min

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Management

Administration Seeks Korean Aid Hike

By Paul Mann5 min

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