Mar 15 1974
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA and the National Science Foundation announced an agree-ment to design, construct, and test an experimental 100-kw wind turbine generator at Lewis Research Center. The large windmill would be tested to determine performance and characteristics of systems for future com-mercial production of electric power [see 11 Jan]. (NASA Release 74-63)
The revised estimated cost of the Rockwell International Corp. B-1 bomber program-up $1.3 billion, to $15 billion-was sent to Congress in a Dept. of Defense letter. New estimates of the cost of the program to produce 244 aircraft resulted from a decision to build more prototypes and allow for an annual inflation rate of 3.3% instead of the previous 2.57%. (Reuters, NYT, 19 March 74, 17)
Aviation pioneer Henri Pequet had died at his home in Vichy, France, at age 86, friends reported. Pequet had flown in a free-floating balloon in 1905 and was licensed as France's 88th pilot in 1910 after teaching him-self to fly. On 18 Feb. 1911 he piloted the world's first official mail flight, between Allahbad and Nani in India. (UPI, W Post, 17 March 74, B7)
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