European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday april 28, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 states vying for lucrative project $4.4 billion super Collider seeks Home by Clifford d. May Washington not a the have vied in the past to be the Home of inc super flow dozens of Stales now Are competing id become inc site at the superconducting super Collider the Large stand Mosi expensive scientific research tool Ever built. Energy Secretary John herring Ion Hasca Ted inc $4.4 billion Collider � device that will smash along in an Effort to Dis cover the most fundamental building blocks of matter a project As significant As the Moon Landing in 1969. The project also is Likely to make in stale in which it is situated one of the world great science centers with Al that implies for nearby universities hotels haberdashers health clubs and other establishments. States have been gearing up to com Pete for the super Collider appropriating Money conducting geological and Seis Mic studies hiring lobbyist Public relations experts and consultants and begin Ning to write the proposals which Are to be turned Over to the department of Energy by aug. 3. Last thursday combat among state got under Way in Washington when Texas reps. Jack Brooks a Democrat and Joe Barton a Republican quietly added a $2.8 million amendment that was approved along with the $8.5 billion supplemental appropriations Bill. The added Money was to be used for physics research at an atom smasher in was a sneak attack said rep. J. Dennis Hastert a Republican from Illi Nois another state keenly interested in inc super Collider. They were clearly Irving to get everybody on record endorsing Texas As the key physics hasten quickly mobilized a counterattack organizing a Roll Call vote Friday morning. The amendment was crushingly Defeated. Marcy Murphy an aide to Brooks de Nied us amendment was meant to give Texas a leg up in the super collide sweepstakes but acknowledged that everyone perceived it that the Federal project endorsed by presi Dent Reagan in january is expected Loc reate 4,500 construction jobs and 2,500 permanent jobs. Ii is to have an operating budget of s2to million a year and will contain facilities for As Many As 500visiting scientists some critics of the project have charged that the super Collider s planners in the Energy department could narrow inc list to a handful of the most suitable states immediately. Instead the critics charge planners prefer to Dangle the project before As Many lawmakers As Possi ble for As Lone As possible in Hopes that congressmen from slates that have Holly proposed atom smasher pursued the super Collider May be More inclined to favor inc project s budget re quests. Some slates arc even considering Mak ing contributions to the super Collider s costs. Beyond thai Illinois wit be Stres sing that it already is the Home of the Fermi lab National accelerator now in country s most powerful atom smasher while California and Texas will say the project would til in Well with their High technology industries and what is More they have inc nicest weather. Ohio also is expected to compete and those familiar with the project say a consortium of Tho Abc flans Cobda oos Ottea Bacr Atod to to Dow Soen teis to Mudy toot Knibb Muter the Bobre. Helium magnets Parade beam pipes Rocky Mountain slates Wilt Pul Forth Strong contender possibly Idaho Colo Rado or new Mexico new York the Only applicant from the Northeast so far has been a half hearted competitor. In a letter sent to Herrington earlier this month members of the Newyork congressional delegation announced they would work vigorously to win the super Collider. And on april 10, the state legislature budgeted s3 Mil lion toward thai end. But nine Days tiler Cov. Mari Cuomo said he did t really think new York stood much of a Chance. And s. Straiten an Albany Democrat who leads the stale s delegation said Don t know that we re knocking our brains out on this. Well keep our other officials and members of in delegation however believe new York should be a key contender stressing the stale s proximity to institutions such As Cornell Columbia Princeton the Mas Sachs salts Institute of techno Lolly har Vard and the stale s own Brookhaven National Laboratory in Suffolk. It. Gov. Stan Lundine who has Bee working to boost new York s standing on the project said possible Sites within the stale have been identified near Palm Yra Newburgh and Malone whatever town adopts the super col Lider must have a big backyard. The machine s key component will be an under ground Tunnel More than 50 Miles i circumference. Inside that Tunnel mag nets made of materials that offer almost no resistance to electricity will spin Suba Tomic particles at furiously High the particles will be smashed into one another creating conditions similarly those believed to have existed when the universe was is scheduled to make a Deci Sion on the site in january 1989. Con Gress must then begin coming up with Money to build the super Collider Over five to seven year Pend. Some scientists have suggested in project should be postponed Tor a while because fast moving research in the de glop men of superconducting materials could Render the machine s giant mag nets obsolete by the Lime they Are in stalled. Sweden introduces prof Type of new Delta Wing let fighter Unk Oping Sweden a Sweden unveiled prototype of its new Jet lighter sunday a sleek Delta Wing aircraft that ils designers said can switch from interceptor to reconnaissance or attack lighter with the flip of its computer program. About 1,000 swedish and foreign air Force office Sand guests watched the plane displayed in a Mist of swirling smoke and flashing lights at a Roll out ceremony Al the hangars of Saab Scania the automaker and aerospace group that built the plane. Called the Jas-39 Ripen. Which is swedish for Griffin the 45-foot-Long plane has been five years in development. It is scheduled to make ils first test flight later this year and be operational in 1992. This plane can serve in attack interception or reconnaissance functions by switching the software of the computer and the weaponry Saab communications director Rolf Erichs told reporters air Force chief it. Gen. Sven Otoe Olsson said the aircraft would remain competitive for Al least 20 years after going into service. Sweden Hopes to sell the plane ids Guerland which is replacing ils Fleet of about so Nging French built Mirage aircraft in the next decade. But the Ripen faces stiff Competition for the Swiss contract from . General dynamics f-16, Mcdon Nell Douglas f-18 Hornet and Northrop s f-2q to Ger shark. The French Mirage and inc israeli Lavi also could be in the running. Company official said Finland which uses the %0s-gcncration swedish Draken dragon Jet and the soviet built Mig-21, also is a potential customer. So i Denmark a nato country that deploys the Draken and the f-16. Sweden needs a foreign Market to help offset the estimated s7 billion development Cost but it is forbid Den by swedish Law to sell to countries at War or i volatile regions. Saab officials said they expected the planes to cos about is 3 million each and 140 Are due to be produced by the end of the Century. Erichs mid designers were trying to bring the weigh of the aircraft Down to eight tons which will give it High Speed Quick acceleration and top Manuele Tabili to the one Svaicr plane powered by a modified Gener Al electric f404 engine was the largest defense con tract Ever placed with swedish Industry. A consortium comprised of Saab Scania the Are engine division of Volvo the pm Ericsson telecommunications company and the defense material administration was formed to build the aircraft. The ms-j9 will be the sixth generation of jul fight ers to be developed in Sweden since 1947. Of the six Basic aircraft. 25 versions have been developed an produced for inc swedish air Force. Saved by a movie Burton Stillman 51, Sils at the controls of his ultralight plane alter sunning a watery crash that nearly killed him. The Pontius mice Pilot who was trapped upside Down underwater after his Crill plunged into a Lake Sau his mind lashed Back to a similar scene from the Marie an officer and a gentleman in which nary filers crashed in i Pool and saved themselves by a buckling their harness and follow ring air Bob Bles to the surface
