SIGNING CEREMONY TO INITIATE DEVELOPMENT OF REVOLUTIONARY AIRCRAFT ENGINES

Tue, 10 Dec 1996 16:00:26 -0500 (EST)
Source: NASANews@hq.nasa.gov

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington, DC                December 10, 1996
(Phone: 202/358-1726)
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Lori Rachul
Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH
(Phone: 216/433-8806)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N96-80

SIGNING CEREMONY TO INITIATE DEVELOPMENT
OF REVOLUTIONARY AIRCRAFT ENGINES

     The development of revolutionary aircraft engines and 
the huge potential for the U.S. general aviation industry 
will be the focus of a signing ceremony and media 
availability next week.  NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin 
will welcome Members of Congress, government officials and 
aviation industry executives to the ceremony at 2 p.m. EST, 
Monday Dec. 16, in the NASA Headquarters auditorium, 300 E 
Street SW, Washington, DC. 

     Two companies, Williams International, Walled Lake, MI, 
and Teledyne Continental Motors, Mobile, AL, have been 
selected as part of NASA's General Aviation Propulsion (GAP) 
program to develop technologies and manufacturing processes 
for revolutionary, low-cost, environmentally-compliant 
general aviation propulsion systems and test them on advanced 
aircraft.

     GAP works in concert with the NASA/FAA/Industry Advanced 
General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) Consortium 
which is developing advanced cockpit and airframe 
technologies. Both AGATE and GAP will promote U.S. economic 
growth by supporting the revitalization of the general 
aviation industry in the global market place. 

     U.S. general aviation serves 17,800 airports, provides 
the only air transportation for millions of people to many 
communities throughout the U.S. and the world and provides 
hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs. 

     The ceremony will be shown live on NASA television, 
Spacenet 2, 69 degrees West longitude, transponder 5 Channel 
9, frequency 3880 MHz, horizontal polarization.  Two-way 
question and answer capability for media will be provided by 
participating NASA centers.

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