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Iran recently cut its order for American Spruance-class destroyers from six ships to four. The Shah is also said to be reconsidering his informal decisions to buy the U.S. AW ACS system (a Boeing 707 packed with strategic electronic gear), a new Air Force cargo plane called the YC-15 and 300 F-16 lightweight Air Force fighter planes...
Meanwhile, the planemakers are counting on military orders to speed development of new wing shapes and quieter, more powerful engines, both of which might eventually lead to improvements in commercial planes. An order for cargo transports that has pitted McDonnell Douglas YC-15 against Boeing's YC-14 could have that effect. The manufacturers are also trying to adapt existing jetliners to new uses. Boeing has already developed a smaller version of its original jumbo jet called the 7475P. It will carry 100 fewer passengers (capacity: 280 seats), burn 10% less fuel and fly much faster than its parent...
...kings, at Uppsala, the city where he grew up and studied. It had been a long way home: 5,000 miles from Ndola. the small Rhodesian town where the Secretary-General had been bound to negotiate peace in Katanga. When the body arrived in Stockholm aboard an American DC-yC, 250,000 mourners gathered for a torchlight procession. At Uppsala the closed casket, nearly buried in flowers, was placed in the 13th century Lutheran cathedral, where 15,000 townfolk came to say their farewells...
...Philadelphia, newsmen and Pentagon brass watched the YC-123E "Panto-base" plane, a new amphibious version of the Air Force's land-based Chase C-123 transport, go through its paces on the Delaware River. Pilot Bernie Hughes made a normal take-off from nearby Mustin Naval Air Station, then pulled up the wheels, lowered a pair of 13-ft. skis from the plane's belly and made several demonstration landings and take-offs on the water. Unlike regular amphibians, the two-engined YC-123E loses a minimum of speed and range with its new landing gear...
LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT Corp. is ready to flight-test its big (20-ton capacity), powerful (15,000 h.p.) turboprop military-cargo plane, the YC-130, next week. Designed as a workhorse, the YC-130 can carry a tank, take off from short, front-line airstrips, fly faster and higher than any other U.S. military transport. Lockheed already has Air Force orders for 29 YC-lSOs, and expects to deliver the first production model within a year...