Satellites guide Collins jet to pinpoint landing near Paris
Rockwell Collins tested Navstar GPS on a London to Paris flight ending at Le Bourget Airport. Pilot used satellite data with a hood over his cockpit, stopping 5 m left and 7 m beyond the X. Test set world records for satellite navigation flights and showcased future civilian and military uses.
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Collins Jet
Paris
Kurt Rogahn Lazette
Rockwell-Collins Company
le Bourget
Dave Selzer
Collins
Townsend Hoopes
Selzer
London
Cedar Rapids
Hoopes
Gander
Newfoundland
Reykjavik
Iceland
Kirkwood offers summer term community education classes
Kirkwood Community College opens telephone registration for summer term classes starting the week of June 12. Registration runs 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday until June 17. Cedar Rapids Marion residents may call 398-5412 to register.
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Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids- Marion
String Quartet Receives $14000 NEA Grant
The Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra earned a $14000 National Endowment for the Arts grant to support its String Quartet. Business manager Karla Mason notes this is the 11th year of the grant, though the amount is $6000 less than 1982’s peak and $6000 below the $20000 requested. The NEA cut its entire music budget by 1.5 million, affecting all orchestras in similar funding levels.
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Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra
National Endowment For the Arts
Karla Mason
NEA
Mason
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Symphony
39 drivers ticketed in I 380 crackdown
Cedar Rapids police and Iowa State Patrol troopers cited 39 motorists for speeding on Interstate 380 in the second such operation this year. Two teams aided by a helicopter and airplane stopped speeders for nearly three hours starting at 8 a.m. A semi driver was clocked at 69 mph, the fastest recorded. More operations are planned.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Louis Stepanek
Stepanek
The Gazette Details and Subscription Rates in Cedar Rapids
The Gazette established in 1883 by The Gazette Company. Published daily and Sunday at 500 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids Iowa. Subscription rates listed: Morning Editions and Sunday seven issues weekly $9.20 per month or $95 per year. Other states $125 per year. No mail subscriptions where Gazette carrier service exists. Associated Press rights noted. USPS 095680.
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THE
Gazette
Gazette Company
Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Corrier
U.S
Associated Press
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Rockwell-Collins
Jim Churchill
Collins Avionics Group
Don Rothenbeutel
Kothenbeutel
Don Rothenbeatel
GPS Marketing
Avionics
Kirkwood
Truckload Sale
Discount Furniture
33Rd Ave
Sheraton
Montgomery Ward
Pack
String Quartet
Imnes
Resi
City Downs E
Illinois
Zaen
Tiller
Westdale Mall
Sterling
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