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44 fUCHT International, 9 January 1969 WORLD N EWS Concorde Flight in February? spacecraft and the rocket second stage. As this issue went to press Sud stated Boeing manufactured the first stage to that the first flight of the prototype boost the craft to escape velocity and Concorde 001 at Toulouse "would be at McDonnell Douglas was responsible for the end of this month or the beginning the third rocket stage. Grumman Aircraft of February." Last week ground runs of has built the lunar landing device to be the flight-cleared Rolls-Royce Bristol- tested by Apollo 9 at a further cost of Snecma Olyimpus 593 engines were being $50 million (£20.8 million), made prior to the final round of taxying Each succeeding Apollo mission will trials at gradually increasing speeds. provide $360 million (£150 million) in hardware contracts for the major con- Apollo 8 Boosts Space Programme tractors, only a small part of the 1968 Success of the Apollo 8 Moon shot fiscal year NASA space budget of over Christmas has given NASA's space $4,600 million (£1,920 million). NASA programme a much-needed shot in the is already talking about two separate arm. Had it failed there is little doubt Moon landings this year and vistas are that Congress and President-elect Nixon opening up which would mean progress would have looked unfavourably at the into a much more lucrative phase for budget for the programme, now so close Wall Street. to putting an American on the Moon's Until the new Nixon administration surface. is installed and its policies become clear Some idea of the size of the American the US space industry will be uncertain space effort and what it means to the of the size of any future programme, companies involved was provided by an Both Presidential candidates paid, lip- article in the Sunday Telegraph on service to the space effort in their cam- December 29. This stated that over the gpaigns; but, With considerable pubic past decade or more the programme had opinion weighted against it, a further cost something like $30,000 million programme on the scale of Apollo seems (£12,500 million) and each year claimed unlikely to gain much favour. Expendi- some 0.5 per cent of the US gross ture on the conflict in Vietnam and the national product. Apollo 8, it is esti- increasing severity of the colour prob,* mated, put more than $310 million lem are major factors which are likely (£129 million) into the turnover of three to have an adverse effect on the major American aerospace companies programme, and their subcontractors, representing the cost of the Saturn V booster stage. Sir Frank Whittle's US Honour the spacecraft itself, the astronauts' Sir Frank Whittle is to receive the capsule and the engine which brought 1969 Tony Jannus Award at Tampa, the capsule back to Earth. Fla, on January 24. North American Rockwell built the He will thus become the first foreigner Russia's Tu-144 supersonic transport seen at an unidentified airport near Moscow taking on fuel for its flight maiden on December 31. The nose is in the drooped position for slow-speed flight and for maximum visibility during take-off and landing. Story and more pictures: page 47 to be given this award, presented annually to an individual who has "con tributed greatly to the development of •the scheduled airline industry." It derives its name from the chief pilot of the world's first regular passenger ser vice, two flights daily between Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla, in 1914. The award was instituted in 1954. Air League's Royal President The Duke of Edinburgh, the Air League's patron, is to become its presi dent for 1969, its 60th anniversary year. He succeeds the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, who has been president since 1959. The league has also anounced that its Founder's Medal for 1968 has been awarded to Sir George Edwards, manag ing director of British Aircraft Corpora tion. The medal is awarded annually for the most meritorious achievement in British aviation. SLAET's New President Mir R. E.. Hardingham—who, as recorded on page 46, was knighted in the New Year Honours List—was installed as president of the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers and Technologists at a ceremony at the Guildhall, Kingston- upon-Thames, on January 3. He takes over his duties in the society's 25th anniversary year from the retiring presi dent, Mr W. A. Richardson, technical director of British United Airways. Sir Robert, who has just retired as chief executive of the Air Registration Board, said he had signed more than 7,000 licences for aircraft engineers while with
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