Apr 4 1974
From The Space Library
The YF-17 prototype lightweight fighter aircraft was rolled out at the Northrop Corp. plant in Hawthorne, Calif. The YF-17 and the YF-16 being built by General Dynamics Corp. marked the first Air Force effort to place more emphasis on hardware performance and less on paper studies by using an advance prototyping concept. The USAF would evaluate the YF-16 and YF-17 in a 12-mo flight-test program before making a commitment to production. (DOD Release 131-74)
Dr. Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and now Special Assistant to the NASA Administrator for Energy Research and Development, testified in Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences hearings on FY 1975 authorizations: One of the most important contributions NASA could make to energy research and development was the application of managerial techniques developed in the space program, permitting programs, schedules, and budgets to be defined and then adhered to without major degradation of the original goals. "This mission-oriented approach to research and development and its broad integration of the great capabilities and imagination of industry will . . . be applied just as successfully to the critical problems that face the Nation and the world in energy?' (Transcript)
The Federal Aviation Administration announced a proposed new regulation requiring fuel tanks and fuel venting spaces on turbine-powered transports over 5670 kg to be equipped with explosion-prevention systems. Under the proposal, aircraft operators and manufacturers could use a system that maintained a continuous nonflammable atmosphere, such as nitrogen, or a system that arrested a fire or explosion once initiated. All turbine aircraft manufactured two years after the effective date of the final rule would be required to be fitted with this equipment within three years. (FAA Release 74 47)
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