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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1969
Page
7
Aviation expert Col. Robert L. Stephens predicts sonic booms will become routine with the SST era. He noted warning helps, altitude reduces impact, and compares booms to trains passing homes during the Beverly Hills symposium.
Washington lawmakers tentatively approved increased user taxes and a new annual aircraft registration fee. The package could raise more than $9 billion over a decade, with registration added by the tax writing unit alongside Nixon Administration proposals.
Los Angeles City Council deferred action on a 15 cent per passenger head tax at LAX pending an overall airport revenue study. The panel also postponed decisions on airline ticket percentage, registration charges, and related taxes amid proposed federal and administration plans.
TWA ground operations chief H. C. Lott Jr at the Anaheim conference said space tech will be adapted for air travel within years. Rocket airliners could carry 100 or more from New York to Paris, travel to orbiting stations, and moon flights may become routine in the next century. Ground prep remains the major bottleneck, with 23,000 personnel needed at Kennedy Space Center per launch.
President Nixon announces nominating Robert Louis Johnson of Newport Beach as assistant secretary of the Army for research and development. Johnson, 49, is vice president of McDonnell Douglas Astronautics in Huntington Beach and formerly led the manned orbiting laboratory program. He succeeds Russell D. O'Neal who resigned last year.
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