AEROSPACE CALENDAR
Aviation Week & Space Technology
EDITORIAL
Combat Vs. Computers
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May 11-13 —16th Annual National Aerospace Electronics Conference (NAECON), IEEE & Dayton Section of AIAA, Biltmore Hotel, Dayton, Ohio. May 11-14—35th Annual Scientific Meeting, Aerospace Medical Assn., Americana Hotel, Miami Beach, Fla.
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Volume 80 Number 18 May 4, 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 EUROPEAN EDITOR.........Cecil Brownlow
1011EDITORIAL
Combat Vs. Computers
(One of the major controversies now raging within the Pentagon is the relative value of combat experience vs. computerized, theoretical war-gaming to evaluate the efficiency of new weapon systems and determine their place in national strategy.
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WHO'S WHERE
In the Front Office1213MANAGEMENT
INDUSTRY OBSERVER
► USAF’s Aeronautical Systems Div. will investigate concepts to use large aircraft for launching defensive weapons against submarine-launched ballistic missiles. The program probably will not be funded before Fiscal 1966. It would be handled by a new ASD activity called the mobile air and space defense branch.
1415Washington Roundup
TFX Lesson Lost Administrator James E. Webb could have saved himself and his space agency a lot of grief in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory hearings last week if he had remembered what happened when the Pentagon hierarchy charged that a congressional investigation of the TFX contract was hurting the morale of the Defense Dept.
1617MISSILE ENGINEERING
Navy Standardizes Polaris SINS System
Autonetics device to replace Sperry in five subs; Navy is to eliminate one of three navigation units.1617MISSILE ENGINEERING
Polaris A3 Reaches Advanced Test Phase
Washington—Lockheed Polaris A3 missile has reached the “advanced development” phase after 34 announced launches from land pad, ship and submarine in the Atlantic Missile Range. Ship launches are made from the USS Observation Island, which is believed to have fired three additional unannounced A3 missiles since it was deployed to the Pacific early this year.1617AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
Lockheed, Boeing Study Concepts For 700-800,000-lb. CX-HLS
New York—Concepts developed in the Lockheed C-141A StarLifter program are being evaluated for possible application to aircraft of up to 700,000 lb. gross weight which could transport a 130,000 lb. payload over 7,200 naut. mi. at 350 kt., without refueling.ByJames R. Ashlock
1819SPECIAL HANOVER AIR SHOW REPORT
