May 14, 2001

May 14, 2001

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COVER STORY

As Delay Season Nears, FAA, Airlines See Hope

By DAVID BOND12 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Pit Tests Measure JSF Stovl Environment

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM5 min

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Rumsfeld Revamps Space, Pushes ‘Black’ Projects

By ROBERT WALL5 min

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COVER STORY

As Delay Season Nears, FAA, Airlines See Hope

An improved management process and better tools may make this summer less painful than last

By DAVID BOND12 min

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Pit Tests Measure JSF Stovl Environment

LOS ANGELES Lockheed Martin has finished hover pit tests of its X-35B short take-off/vertical landing (Stovl) testbed, and is installing the flight test engine and lift fan in preparation for the first flight of the Joint Strike Fighter prototype, which could occur around the beginning of July.

By MICHAEL A. DORNHEIM5 min

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Rumsfeld Revamps Space, Pushes ‘Black’ Projects

Leading-edge technologies receive Pentagon backing, but overseas commitments could be curtailed

By ROBERT WALL5 min

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JSF Seen Testing U.S. As a Reliable Partner

WASHINGTON U.K. officials are warning the Pentagon that they view its commitment to the Joint Strike Fighter as a litmus test of whether the U.S. can ever be a dependable partner in military development programs. The verbal warning shot comes as U.S. industry and government officials are putting finishing touches on international teaming arrangements for the multibillion-dollar program, which is entering the home stretch before the Defense Dept. picks a winning contractor in October.

By ROBERT WALL4 min

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Tito Trip Strains ISS Partnership

WASHINGTON The flight of space tourist Dennis Tito has raised the ire of powerful U.S. senators on the appropriations panel that funds NASA, but more tourists are waiting in the wings and there’s a chance Russia will sell them seats on future Soyuz “taxi flights” to the International Space Station.

By FRANK MORRING4 min

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Air Force Slashed In New Zealand Plan

WASHINGTON SAN FRANCISCO New Zealand’s prime minister, Helen Clark, has taken another major step toward scaling back the country’s air force by divesting its combat arm as part of a new defense initiative that would slightly boost military spending and attempt to modernize what remains of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

By ROBERT WALL,MICHAEL MECHAM4 min

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U.S. May Suspend Northern Watch Patrol

WASHINGTON Convinced that the Bush Administration will recoil from the amount of money, time, operational forces and allied goodwill being consumed by the air blockade of Iraq, U.S. military planners are looking at strategies to shut down Operation Northern Watch, which is flown out of Turkey’s Incirlik AB.

By DAVID A. FULGHUM4 min

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A New Headquarters: Boeing Says, ‘Chicago’s It’

In an announcement eagerly anticipated in four cities—if nowhere else—The Boeing Co. said last week that it will move its headquarters to Chicago. It chose the former headquarters of Morton International Co. (best known as owner of Leslie Salt), a 36-story skyscraper just west of the Chicago River.

By MICHAEL MECHAM3 min

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Darpa Pursues Refueling, Electronic Upgrades for Sats

By ROBERT WALL3 min

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New Sectors Divide Workload To Improve Traffic Flow

Washington The FAA has carved seven new air traffic control sectors out of airspace in four of its busiest air route traffic control centers (ARTCCs) in an attempt to increase capacity this summer in the high-density triangle formed by Chicago, Boston and Washington.
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