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COMPANIES 

COLUMN TITLED FILTER CENTER ANNOU NCES'IHAT.:THR EE:_1;. ..s,•;;;;..• HAVE BEEN - SELECTED TO . STUD.CA SATEL'LITE' T E-. NAV IG AT ION-GUIDANCE- CONTROL' . SYSTEM WHICH.."COULD... BC US ED' • ON PHOTO AND EL I NT SATELLITES. WE ARE: C-ONCO NEM: OVEN WHAT APPEARS TO BE A BLATANT • DISREGARD OF .:NATIONAL

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Smith asked clearance to begin his de-

• scent, planning to cross Arrowhead at the

programed altitude of 14.000 ft.

"That's a little tough," Center replied.

and cleared TWA 17 to descend and

maintain Flight Level 240. The aircraft

now turned direct to Arrowhead. about

313 mi. aw and the control-display

-• unit ' a course of 225 deg. to Arrowhead, with an estimated time of sr-

,rival of 0621 GMT. Altitude planned at

the Le read 14.000 ft.

Smith apin contacted the center. eaplaining that be was cleared to Slight level

NO, but had a prop= that called for

=min Arrowhead at 14.000 ft., if approved.

This was a different controller. and

Smith described to him the Arrowhead

STAR and the Runway 25L approach.

The airplane was still about 200 mi. out

when it was cleared to descend and maintain 11.000 ft. and contact Los Angeles

Caner on another frequency.

"Do you have the clearance or do you

want it?" asked the neat controller. He

cleared TWA 17 for the Arrowhead approach. then asked: "You want Bassett at

7000'" Answered In the affirmstive. he

told the fight to squawk 1100 and saint

to center on 121.2 enc.

"Will you just intercept the localizes?

asked the neat controller. Los Angeles

could now be seen as a wide band of light

in the night from about 30 mi.

Cleared for 10,000

Cleared out of 17.000 ft. for 10.000. the

Bight was told to squawk 0400.

haven't touched an aircraft control

since first intercepting the R-Nav route."

Smith pointed out to the flight deck persommel.

TWA 17 was now handed of to Los

Angeles approach control on 124.9 sac_

andasked to ides and maintain 7.000 ft.

"What are you doing tonight. TWA .

an approach controller asked. -17r 

Smith explained the Arrowhead STAR

and R-Nay approach.

11b. ountandieg.- approach control f

replied.

The airplane made good all crossing alWades with nopilot Intenrenuon and.te,

close in on final. Smith abruptly switched

off the R-Nay system and continued the

approach and landing manually.

The Arms engineer asked why he had

done that.

"I like to 1y." Smith replied

akb fr the firm ef oar creeks ea tit TWA

11-Nee rare ewhilsee. The sewed arch wit

appear e sekeiseres Luse)

. pilot decisisivo bel'heyed into the

chine inticanng whether or not to

tbe new data. Smith accepted the new

Vortac data and. shortly aftenrard, was

cleared direct from present position to

Arrowhead.

New design of airport surface detection radar. to be installed soon at the Los

Angeles laternational Airport, which resembles a spinning helicopter rotor

blade. is an adaptation of the rotor blade radar developed earlier by Texas

Instruments (*won June 17. 19611. p. 66). The 14-ft. long slotted-array antenna. enclosed in a blade-shaped radome. operates at 114, band and rotates

at 150 rpm. Because of the low-mass antenna, it can be installed inexpensively atop the tower cab Oman Feb. 7, 1972. p. 47). A similar ASDR has

been ordered from Texas Instruments for installation later this year at the

Zurich international airport.

Three RCA Secant ailisioa avoidance systems MU be itegrend shortly to

Naval Air Development Center for eight evaluation expected in begin in

June. The NADC evaluation is being performed for the Federal Aviation

Administration. Following tests of the RCA hardware. NADC is to begin

evaluation of the competing Honeywell CAS system this fall. Two bills

recently introduced in the Senate and House all for the FAA to complete

its evaluation of major CAS contenders by Mar. 30. 1974 (awasr Apr. 30,

p. 21).

Air Force expects to seek bids soon for integrating ALQ-99 noise jammers

Into two productioa prototypes of the projected General Dynamics

EF-111A tactical jamming system. intended to replace McDonnell Douglas

EB-66 electronic warfare aircraft. The jammers. part ora system. developed

for the Navy/Grumman EA-6B (AtirdST Feb. 21. 1972. p. 45). will supplement the F-111's existing threat warning and self-protection ECM systems.

Flight test of Sperry Flight Systems terminal area guidance. navigation and

control system for short-takeoff-and-landhts aircraft (Stoland) was scheduled to been late last week at National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Ames Research Center. The system is to be down in a NASA Convair 340. using flight director outputs. but not coupled to an autopilot or

autothrottle equipment. Fully-coupled tests in the Boeing-modified de Havilland of Canada C-8A Buffalo (AWItST Feb. 14, 1972, p. 25) will begin in

the fall.

Singergearfott has received a contract for 5500.000 front Rockwell International for flight instrameatation signal manners (FISC) and multiplex

interface modules for the USAF /Rockwell B-1 research. development, test

and engineering vehicle. The signal converters are used between the Kearfoit SEC 2070 avionics control unit supplied to Boeing (Aware* Apr. 16,

p. 44) and other avionics on the aircraft.

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Three companies have beiii.r,elicielionadmet 12:avtontiThidWs an

tootenon satellite natiption-pddaace•cootrol system which could be used

on photo-reconnaissance and electronic intelligence (Sint) satellites to

make them independent of a global network of tracking-command stations.

The three companies are Honeywell Aerospace Div.. IBM Federal Systems

Div. and 11% Systems. Contracts, awarded by USAF's Space and Missik

Systems Organization (SAMSO). range from S761.000 for TRW to $901,000

for IBM.

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Bends International nil supply an althorn remote sensing and pound data

processing system to the Argentine Miaistry of Agriculture and Cattle for

conducting surveys of the country's agricultural lands, under a S I-million

contract from the ministry. The surve y will use the airborne modular multiband scanner (M2S). designed by Bendix Aerospace Systems Div. to acquire 11 channels of data (Amur May 24. 1971, p. 41), ranging from the

ultraviolet region to the far infrared. Equipped with its thermal detector

unit, the scanner system can map the beat energy radiated from land or water, aiding pollution investigation.