European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1wb stats and stems 31, numerous incidents touch off hassle Over airworthiness officials air pros cons of 707 if Toner Washington Dpi the 701 represents one of the Besten gingered products american Avia t 6n is capable of  that quote is from it Gen Elwood r. Quesada redhead of the Federal aviation Agency. The 707s must be grounded pending detailed re examination of the plane s  that quote is from rep. Stephen b. Derounian  both statements were issued after an american airlines 707 crashed at Calverton n.y., during a training flight. The five Crew members the Only persons on Board were killed in the first fatal Accident to one of the giant Jet liners. The single crash would have caused no particular concern but it came on the heels of numerous incidents involving 707s. One big Boeing lost two wheels from its Landing gear after taking off from new York on a transatlantic flight and had to make an emergency Landing. And there have been almost a dozen cases in which the 707s Hydraulic system for lowering the Landing gear failed. These difficulties plus the train ing flight crash added up to Derounian s demand that the jets be grounded and Quesada s unusually Strong defense of the 707 in rejecting that demand. The Faa chief insists the 707 is a completely Safe aircraft in View of these incidents for these Rea sons Quesada believes the jetliner s difficulties have Beeli blown up far beyond their real importance. Not a single Case of Hydraulic system failure involved a True emergency. The 707 has two alternate Means of lowering a Landing gear by an electric pump or by a hand Crank. Failure of the Hydraulic system creates about As much danger As a dead Battery would in a car it represents a nuisance not an emergency. The Only Landing gear incident to involve potential danger occurred Vohen a 707 lost two of its eight main wheels on Takeoff. The Pilot did a Slick Job of Landing safely by keeping the crippled Side of the gear., off the runway until the plane had slowed almost to a Slop. The Story behind this near Emer gency is that an inspection the previous Day had shown signs of Wear in the Landing gear truck beam the Axle that holds the wheel in place. But mechanics did not think Ali Wear was enough to warrant replacement of the beam. Since then the Faa a issued stricter inspection and maintenance orders for this component. The 707s Only fatal crash took place during a difficult training Man Euver a Landing approach with two of the four engines deliberately killed to simulate engine failure. Some airlines per Mit this training procedure Only at High altitudes in which the approach is make believe. Because of the 707s great weight arid the flying characteristics of its swept Back wings a two engine out approach is considered so Tricky that the airline pilots Assn. Is considering asking the air lines to drop it from their training courses. How can any Bug develop in an Airliner that was supposed to have gone through every test known to soviet economic military Vise squeezes Afghanistan by Stewart Hensley Washington up while chinese communists probe the Himalayan defences of India a few Hundred Miles to the West Russia is tightening its strangle hold on the strategic kingdom of Afghanistan and its 13 million people. This has been reported by Amer ican officials who said the soviet Union now has virtual control of Afghanistan s 50,000-Man army and Small Jet equipped air Force and also is moving rapidly toward domination of the country s econ state department officials pointed out Afghanistan As a dramatic Little publicized example of one of communism s greatest successes in All of its probing operations along the red Periphery from Turkey to Laos. The land locked kingdom lying athwart the historic invasion route to India and Southeast Asia is getting the All out soviet Politi Cal and economic treatment in a big Way they said. New intelligence report american officials versed in political and economic warfare Are studying what they consider an alarming new intelligence sum Mary which discloses among other things that almost 50 per cent of Afghanistan s foreign Trade now is with Russia under Long term barter deals compared with 10 per cent in 1950 and about 18 per cent in 1955. The afghan army armed with $70 million of russian military equipment is being trained by soviet officers some of them generals. The russians have provided Afghanistan with a Jet air Force consisting of 60 fighters and 12 bombers. The. Aid program has provided Afghanistan with Hydro electric facilities Oil storage installations airfields highways and a modern machine and Metal working Plant. The russians have put $15 million into Oil exploration and $5 million into agricultural development and have established a radio Telephone circuit linking the afghan capital a bul with Moscow. , officials acknowledge that the soviet Union s Effort was Over whelming the relatively modest american Aid program in Afghanistan soviet engineers Andt construction workers Are proceeding on a crash basis with the building of a paved Highway dotted line on map from the afghan russian Border which slashes 475 Miles southeastward across the country almost to the Pakistan Border. The Road will link the soviet Railhead at Lush est Post Arrow with the afghan City of Kandahar which is connected by a g o o d4 american built Highway with the Pakistan railway at the Border. This $80 million project on which work was begun within 10 Days after it was announced last May is an. Outright gift to Afghanistan. It marked the first time the Kremlin has donated a major project to any country instead of place Tyg it on a loan basis. In the View of american and British officials it emphasizes the importance Russia places on Afghanistan and Pakistan As the logical route for its drive toward economic and political dominance in Southeast Asia and Africa. Istanbul saudi Arabia commercial aviation inspectors no amount of testing can duplicate the conditions of regular air lines operations. The 45 707s delivered to . Airlines thus far Are being flown .10 hours a Day seven Days a week compiling More flight time in less than a year than the air Force s Fleet of kc135 tankers military version of the 707 have piled up in three years. This Means commercial air liners age faster than any lest plane Ever built and the aging process can bring out unsuspected bugs. Boeing s 707 prototype first flew in 1954 and was tested for More than 1,500 hours before the Lar 707s went into service.  pay off what the Public never about Are. The bugs that Rogu hears Are caught in an Airliner testing pro Gram. The present 707 rudder for example is larger than the Origi Nal rudder on the prototype. It was changed in both size and shape after a test dive showed that the Shock wave developing from sonic Speed caused the Rud Der of flutter so much that it nearly failed structurally. The 707 has had fewer teething problems than any new plane in the history of aviation a civil aeronautics Board official said. What do pilots think of the 707? an official airline pilots evaluation committee put the plane through its paces before it was approved for carrying passengers. The verdict the committee was favourably impressed with the air plane s construction and flight handling  safety praised the committee praised the plane s inherent safety its tremendous structural strength its safeguards against explosive de compression and its Overall design. But throughout the pilots report was the cautious warning that the jetliner in Many ways is a completely new kind of air plane with flying characteristics sharply Dif Ferent from conventional aircraft. It repeatedly recommended in tense and lengthy training especially in the critical area of take offs and landings. In that sense the five Crew members who died in that training crash were contributing to a safer future for Jet aviation. Of cd Adi am cd a the we is the safest air plane 5. V.%7.?. Cd Ever built said one Veteran Cap. A  i Tain but she is terribly in forgive -. I info of Micinko i ing of mistakes.1 West Germany reportedly getting Matador missiles Bonn up West Germany s armed forces will shortly be equipped with . Matador mis Siles it was Learned. Informed sources said the de Montgomery s brother Dies at boxing match Fryburg South Africa a Field marshal Viscount Bernard l. Montgomery s younger brother died while acting As an official at a boxing championship. He Vas the Rev. Colin Rodger Montgomery 58. Sense ministry has reached agree ment with the . For the Supply of 24 matadors to the West Ger Man army. The agreement also will include 72 Nike missiles Basic agreement for the Supply of which has been reached Between the two nations. The West German armed forces Are using .-supplied honest John guided missiles. The Matador and the Nike can be equipped with conventional or atomic warheads. It was assumed the non nuclear types would be supplied to West Germany. Red China s army outnumbers India s 6-1 by the associated press India with about 360 million people and red China with 600 million Are the two biggest nations in the world. But their military Power is not so Well matched. India s armed forces number about 500,000, with 400,000 in the army and most of the rest in the air Force according to military estimates. Red China s army , military men believe is Between 2.6 million and 3 million. The indians Are reported to have a Good but Small air Force mostly equipped with British planes. In 1956, red China was reported to have about 3,000 Jet fighters and 500 to 700 Light Jet bombers plus older propeller driven planes. The jets were made by Russia presumably the air Force has received More modern planes since 1956. Nationalist chinese believe some of them Are Russia s newest mig17s. The Indian and red chinese navies consist of Small coastal ves Sels neither country has atomic weapons. European edition army Navy air Force col John d. 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