Jul 24 1965
From The Space Library
FAA awarded $268,635 contract to the Flight Safety Foundation, Inc, to launch Project Gape (General Aviation Pilot Education), a safety campaign to reduce general aviation aircraft accidents. Directed primarily at combating the lack of pilot proficiency and knowledge of safety flight procedures involved in most general aviation accidents, Gape would employ a vigorous publicity campaign, displays, meetings, seminars, special conferences, personal contacts, and similar educational activities. (FAA Release 65-60)
The four largest closed die forgings ever produced from maraging steel were delivered by the Wyman-Gordon Co, to Launch Complex 34 at Kennedy Space Center, NASA. Weighing 15,500 lbs. each and measuring 105 in, by 36 in, they would be used to anchor the mobile service tower for the Saturn IB rocket. (NYT, 7/4/65, 25)
How to achieve the best possible profit from air transportation had been determined at the U.S.S.R.'s Kiev Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers by the computing technology laboratory, Pravda Ukrainy reported. The laboratory's chief engineer, V. V. Buryy, said an electronic computer would suggest the best use of the Ukrainian air fleet. (Pravda Ukrainy, 7/24/65, 4)
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