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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