November 23, 1964

November 23, 1964

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AEROSPACE CALENDAR

Aviation Week & Space Technology

EDITORIAL

Blunting the Spearhead

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AEROSPACE CALENDAR

Nov. 30—Seventh Annual Army Aviation Contract Services Symposium, International Inn, Washington, D.C. Sponser: National AeroSpace Services Assn. Nov. 30-Dec. 2—Seminar on New Horizons in Solid State Electronics, Rochester Institute of Technology’s Extended Services Div., Schraffts Motor Inn, Rochester, N.Y.
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Aviation Week & Space Technology

Volume 81 Number 21 November 23, 1964 PUBLISHER.........Robert W. Martin, Jr. EDITOR...................Robert B. Hotz MANAGING EDITOR........William Gregory SENIOR EDITORS Cecil Brownlow, L. L. Doty, Philip Klass, Irving Stone NATIONAL EDITOR.........Cecil Brownlow
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EDITORIAL

Blunting the Spearhead

If the British Labor government withdraws from the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic transport program it will deal a mortal blow to its aerospace industry and reduce that once-proud island to a second-rate technological power. It may be that this is what the British Labor Party leaders desire.
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WHO'S WHERE

In the Front Office Dr. Herbert Culmann, former director of Lufthansa German Airlines’ Central Office of Administration, appointed a member of Lufthansa’s Board of Management. As of Dec. 31, Wolfgang A. Kittel and Hans M. Bongers will retire from the Board, and in 1965 the Board will be composed of Gerhard Höltje, Hans Süssenguth and Dr. Culmann.
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MANAGEMENT

INDUSTRY OBSERVER

► Strategic Air Command is analyzing potential of the CX-HLS heavy logistics system as a supplementary command and control and tanker aircraft. Commercial potential of the system already has been outlined to the Federal Aviation Agency (AW&ST Nov. 2, p. 27).
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Washington Roundup

USAF Staff Shifts Latest Pentagon rumblings on changes in the Air Force hierarchy that will come with the retirement of Gen. Curtis E. LeMay as chief of staff next February are: Gen. John P. McConnell, now LeMay’s deputy, will succeed him, and Gen. Gabriel P. Disosway, commander of Air Forces in Europe, will succeed McConnell.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

U. S., Germany Consider Joint V/STOL

Advanced fighter would have billion-dollar contract potential; other weapon development pacts studied.

By Cecil Brownlow

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AVIONICS

SR-71 to Use Skybolt Guidance Sensor

Air Force’s SR-71 aircraft, a strategic reconnaissance version of the Lockheed A-11, will use the inertial guidance platform originally developed for the canceled Skybolt missile as part of its astro-inertial navigation system, the aircraft’s primary long-range navaid.
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MANAGEMENT

Australia Plans Air Arm Modernization

Australia will buy at least 36 U. S. Air Force and Navy aircraft as part of a sweeping modernization of its armed forces prompted by what Prime Minister Robert Menzies called “recent Indonesian policies and actions and the growth of communist influence and armed activity in Laos and South Vietnam.”
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SPACE TECHNOLOGY

Soviets Seek Cosmonaut Behavior Trends

San Antonio-Variations in reactions of Soviet cosmonauts to space flight are puzzling that country's scientific community because of the apparently random nature of discomfort and differences in adaptation to weightlessness, Russian scientists concerned with the USSR manned space program indicated here last week.

By Erwin J. Bulban

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