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... -24B lifting body from Flight Research Center . The X-24B , launched from a B-52 aircraft at an altitude of 14 000 in (45000 ft), completed all objectives: flying in transonic ... announced selection of United Aircraft Corp. Sikorsky Aircraft Div. for negotiation of a $25-million cost-reimbursement contract to design. fabricate, flight-test, and deliver two rotor systems research aircraft (RSRA) , The aircraft, helicopters with ...

... Space Council staff-member Maxwell W. Hunter, Jr., and Welsey Kuhrt and George McLafferty of United Aircraft Corp., which is performing research on gas-core nuclear rocket under NASA contract. Maximum specific ... with 400 for the best chemical propellants and 1,000 for solid-core nuclear rocket). United Aircraft calculated useful payload sent to moon and back by gas-core nuclear rocket would be ...

... ) and three engine man­ufacturing companies ( Curtiss-Wright , General Electric , and Pratt & Whitney Div. of United Aircraft ). Boeing's proposed SST was based on basic arrow-wing shape, designed to carry 150 ... mach 2.5 to mach 3. Pratt & Whitney offered two configurations of turbofan engine for aircraft flying up to mach 3. ''(FAA Release 64-8)'' DOD announced $6,261,000 contract ...

... ; pilots would file flight plan and observe ATC instructions which provided for separation between IFR aircraft. Under visual flight rules ''(VFR)'' , pilots maintained separation on a "see and avoid" basis. FAA ... and two F-111As had crashed previously. ''(AP, NYT, 1/4/68, 74)'' AFSC awarded United Aircraft Corp. $3,300,000 initial increment to $33,476,000 contract for advance development program ...

... . 3400 giving FAA authority to set standards and make regulations for control and abatement of aircraft noise and sonic boom. Bill amended Title VI of Federal Aviation Act of 1958. ''(NASA ... Force Chief of Staff Gen. John P. McConnell had described Foxbat as only Soviet fighter aircraft "that we cannot match." Un­dergoing late stages of testing, it had estimated mach 3 ... , 6/11/68, 1)'' Pratt & Whitney Div. of United Aircraft Corp. announced it had reached agreement with USN on prices covering all military aircraft engine pro­grams during 1968-1970. Week before, USN ...

... % drop in jet transport sales before deliveries of new high-capacity aircraft; continuing increase in heli­copter, executive, and utility aircraft sales; modest increase in defense and nonaerospace sales; and decline in ... Div., Rolls-Royce Ltd., and Perry W. Pratt, Vice President and Chief Scien­tist of United Aircraft Corp., had been selected to share $10,000 Goddard Award for their separate work in ...

... aircraft was world's fourth variable-sweep-wing model and first built in Western Europe; others were American F-111, and Soviet Sukhoi and Mikoyan. ''(W Post, 12/21/67, A31)'' United Aircraft Corp. turbotrain, powered by gas turbine engine similar to those used in jet aircraft, reached 170 mph during test run in New Jersey ... , GPO. ''(NASA Release 67-308)'' New reconnaissance camera system for use in Vietnam on RF4C aircraft was undergoing tests at Wright-Patterson AFB , Ohio, to determine camera's operating capability and ...

... Business Machines Corp. for assurance and reliability testing on Saturn IB and Saturn V instrument units. Marshall Space Flight Center MSFC also announced modifications totaling $2,093,760 to contract with ... contract to Pratt & Whitney Div. of United Aircraft Corp. for two-year study to develop compressor/fan noise-prediction methods for design of quieter jet aircraft engines. Contract represented Government's 55% share ...

... Aircraft Div. of United Aircraft Corp., had been named 1971 recipient of USAF Academy's Thomas D. White National Defense Award, presented annually for contributions "to the national defense and security of the United ...

... range of aeronautical research and cooperative exploration with other countries. Aircraft noise abatement would be high-priority goal, with development of QUESTOL aircraft, construction of noise-reduction laboratory at LaRC , and mating ... of Space Shuttle main engine. Action had been taken pending completion of GAO review of United Aircraft Corp. Pratt & Whitney Div.'s protest of contract award to Rocketdyne see Aug. 3 . ''(NASA ...

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