Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That kind of assurance was what North American needed after last month's review-board report on the troubled Apollo program found "many deficiencies in design and engineering, manufacture and quality control." For Apollo's prime contractor, an aerospace giant relying on Government contracts for some 95% of its $2 billion-a-year sales, nothing could have been more damaging than such an indictment...
...spacecraft's command and service modules, North American was in trouble with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration almost from the start. Unhappy about costs and sloppy workmanship, the space agency eventually forced the Los Angeles-based company to lop off 3,000 workers, sent in extra quality-control inspectors, changed contracting procedures to combat what it considered North American's "time clock" approach...
...anything in the industry. Designated the AH-56A Cheyenne, Lockheed's AAFSS is a "compound" aircraft. Like a conventional helicopter, the single-turbine Cheyenne has a main rotor and tail-mounted stabilizing rotor for hovering and vertical takeoffs and landings. In the air, a simple twist of the control-stick grip sets the pitch of the rear-mounted pusher propeller for 240-m.p.h. cross-country dashes on the craft's stubby wings...
...gone berserk. Ever since, helicopter makers have sacrificed simplicity and speed by using flexible rotor blades mounted on heavy, complex hinges. Lockheed picked up the all-but-forgotten rigid-rotor idea in 1957-and found a way to handle it: the pilot's stick tilts only a small control rotor mounted above the main one. That, in turn, gyroscopically swings the aircraft to any desired attitude almost instantly...
...from the World Bank, $56 million from the Export-Import Bank and a $150 million line of credit from Japan, the Taiwan government set about building industry and improving the infrastructure of railroads, highways and communications on which it depends. At the outset, major industries were put under government control, and many of them remain there...