April 2, 1984

April 2, 1984

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Management

Tower Questions Trends in Congress

Management

Pentagon Asks Change in Weapons Guarantees

By Eugene Kozicharow8 min

Space Technology

Indonesia Weighs Mission to Recover Palapa B-2

By Craig Covault8 min

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Management

Tower Questions Trends in Congress

Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the opportunity to present to this committee, for the third and final time as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, my personal views on our country’s future requirements for national defense. In preparing for this hearing, I had given thought to updating testimony presented over the last two years, wherein I outlined many of the current and future challenges to our foreign policy, emphasized the need to continue rebuilding our defense posture and identified some of the practical and financial pitfalls that prevent efficient execution of the defense program in an unstable defense budgeting environment.
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Management

Pentagon Asks Change in Weapons Guarantees

Defense Dept., budget office, industry claim legislation would reduce industrial base, particularly at vendor level

By Eugene Kozicharow8 min

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Space Technology

Indonesia Weighs Mission to Recover Palapa B-2

By Craig Covault8 min

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Avionics

Nato Debates Electronic Warfare Spending Levels

By Michael Feazel7 min

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Air Transport

Delta Expanding Route System with 737-200s

By James Ott6 min

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Satellite Communications

Liquid-fueled Engine to Extend Olympus Operations

Stevenage, England—Olympus communications satellite, formerly called L-Sat, for Large Satellite, will use a combined liquid-fuel propulsion system to provide both orbital insertion and spacecraft stabilization in an effort to increase the spacecraft’s lifetime by making more effective use of on-board propellant.

By David A. Brown6 min

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Avionics

Navy, Usaf Set Flight Tests of Jammer

Washington—Flight tests of the Navy/USAF next-generation airborne self-projection jamming system, the AN/ALQ-165, are scheduled to begin by early fall on board a Navy/McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 and a USAF/General Dynamics F-16, two of the aircraft to be outfitted with the system.

By Philip J. Klass6 min

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Air Transport

Transcontinental Capacity Rising

U. S. airlines’ summer schedules promise intensified competition that could spark a fare war in the market

By James Ott5 min

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Business Flying

Higher Thrust Engines Equip Gp-180

Wichita—Gates Learjet and Italy’s Rinaldo Piaggio have replaced the Pratt & Whitney of Canada PT6A-61 turboprop engines initially chosen for the GP-180 with higher thrust PT6A-66s to insure the advanced-design corporate aircraft meets performance goals.

By David M. North5 min

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Air Transport

Health Service Traces Food Poisoning

By Carole A. Shifrin4 min

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