March 4, 1985

March 4, 1985

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Editorial

Vacuum in Aviation

Industry _Observer

Industry _Observer

Washington Roundup

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Editorial

Vacuum in Aviation

When Sen. Howard W. Cannon of Nevada lost a tough race for reelection in 1982, a legislator who was considered Mr. Aviation in Congress left that scene. As chairman of the aviation subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee before the first Reagan landslide, he was a focal point on Capitol Hill for airlines and business flying.
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Industry _Observer

McDonnell Douglas has asked National Aeronautics and Space Administration permission to fly a new company astronaut on the space shuttle on Mission 61-B in November to control the company’s late production prototype biological processing system that will be mounted in the payload bay for the first time on that mission.
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Washington Roundup

Slow Payment
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CLOSE AIR SUPPORT

USAF Seeks Fighter Derivative As A-10, A-7 Replacement

Robert R. Ropelewski
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Missile Engineering

Aerojet Test-Fires Small ICBM Second-Stage Rocket Motor

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Intelsat Launch Delay

Cape Canaveral—Launch of Intelsat 5A-F10, eighth in à series of 10 Intelsat 5s, was postponed from Mar. 7 to Mar. 21 to replace and retest propellant inlet valves on the two Pratt & Whitney RL-10 engines that power the Centaur upper stage. The satellite will be launched by an Atlas.
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Management

USAF Postponing Drone Development To Settle Questions

Washington—The U. S. Air Force will delay a full-scale drone development effort until Fiscal 1988/89 when questions regarding their use have been resolved, Air Force Secretary Verne Orr told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Fiscal Year 1986 budget.
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Key Senator Seeks Arms Project Curb

Washington—The Senate Armed Services Committee’s ranking Democrat, Sam Nunn (Ga.), is exploring whether the military services would cancel superfluous programs if Congress put a legal limit on the number of weapon production lines. Nunn said a binding limit may be required “if we’re ever going to come to grips with this problem of too many production lines” and the resulting expense of production stretchouts.

By Paul Mann

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Key Senator Seeks Arms Project Curb

France, Germany Develop Alternative Propulsion for ANS Antiship Missile

Paris—France and West Germany are developing parallel propulsion systems for their cooperative ANS new-generation ramjet antiship missile, and one of the two propulsion concepts will be selected for use on production versions of the weapon.
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Space Technology

Presidential Directive Expands U. S. Space Launcher Spectrum

Washington—President Ronald Reagan has signed a directive mandating increased space shuttle utilization by the U. S. Air Force and initiating an effort to develop eventually space shuttle follow-on vehicles, including a new Saturn 5-class heavy booster that could launch Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) antimissile satellites.

By Craig Covault

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