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...fighter fell six to nine months behind schedule after a hydraulic-system failure caused the first prototype to crash last Dec. 30. Though company designers are convinced that the defect has been corrected, the plane has also been hampered by delays in development of its advanced-model Pratt & Whitney engine. An influential group of Congressmen has urged the Pentagon to scrap plans for any new fighters and concentrate instead on updating McDonnell-Douglas' widely acclaimed F-4 Phantom. At one point last week, reports TIME Pentagon Correspondent John Mulliken, the Navy's command was certain that Packard...
...Whitney M. Young Jr., D.H. (posthumous), former executive director of the National Urban League...
...from TARGET. It appears certain that Powercel II will at least get a fair test. It has the backing of Pratt & Whitney and 32 U.S. gas and gas-electric companies known collectively as TARGET (Team to Advance Research for Gas Energy Transformation, Inc.). Since 1967, TARGET has put $20 million into fuel-cell research and development; it will spend another $20 to $25 million in the next three years to field test Powercel in 19 states and the District of Columbia. If all goes well, says C.N.G. President Robert H. Willis, the fuel cell could be marketed...
...back by 50% since the Rolls-Royce collapse; some would get jobs at the McDonnell Douglas plant in nearby Long Beach, where the DC-10 is being built. There would likely be more hiring by Boeing as well as McDonnell Douglas, and by their U.S. engine makers, Pratt & Whitney and General Electric. Thus, while a failure of the L-1011 would cause unemployment to rise in parts of Southern California, it would create more jobs in other sorely pressed areas from Connecticut to Washington State...
...future. The Government would set a precedent of propping up a poorly managed company at the expense of its more efficient rivals, giving Lockheed and Rolls-Royce special competitive privileges in markets that may well be better -and more cheaply-served by McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, General Electric and Pratt & Whitney. By contending that Lockheed is too important to be allowed to fail as the result of a commercial project, the Government gives itself vast new powers to determine just which firms are "important" enough to survive. Should military contractors be given precedence over civilian companies? Should big firms be favored...