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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, December 16, 1970
THE BATTALION
Students design aircraft
for future transportation
Aircraft for linking cities with
super airports have been designed
by A&M students for an evolving
trend in air transportation.
Located between major popula
tion and industrial centers, the
super airport is seen as a neces
sity, due to needs of sophisticated
aircraft and large numbers of
passengers requiring terminal fa
cilities of enormous size, com
mented Stan H. Lowy, associate
professor of Aerospace Engineer
ing.
Jumbo jets and supersonic
transports could then be utilized
to their full extent.
“Such an airport would be cen
tral to and service, say, Houston,
Dallas-Fort Worth and San An
tonio,” he explained. Noise from
the big jets’ landing and takeoff
would be restricted to relatively
sparsely populated areas.
Air taxis such as two designed
by aerospace engineering stu
dents in a senior design course
instructed by Lowy would solve
ground commuter travel time.
“Several small airfields at con
venient points in a city would
reduce ground commuter time as
well as space requirements and
noise pollution problems,” a stu
dent engineering team pointed out
in its aircraft design proposal.
The in-city airfields also would
lend themselves more to small-
plane recreational flying and
small business aircraft than the
present larger facilities that in
many instances are peripheral to
metropolitan centers.
To obtain optimum passenger
capacities and other desired fea
tures for their air taxis, student
design teams headed by John P.
Boyd of Garland and Phillip R.
Bagwell of Beaumont conferred
with Guy A. Davis, president of
Davis Air Lines.
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Davis operates a commuter air
line from Easterwood Airport to
Dallas and, previously, to Hous
ton.
Lowy required that the pre
liminary air taxi design have a
minimum 300-mile range, 225 mph
cruise speed, 15,000-foot service
ceiling and have a landing and
take-off disttance of 1,200 feet or
less over a 50-foot obstacle.
“The students did a very ex
cellent job with quite a bit of
detail,” he stated. Both teams de
signed 18-passenger planes with
retractable landing gear.
“Both planes meet the mini
mum runway requirements and
would do it at Denver on a 90-
degree day,” the instructor said.
Both teams built wind tunnel
models that were tested in the
Aerospace Engineering Depart
ment’s two-by-three foot wind
tunnel.
The Boyd team chose a stand
ard configuration aircraft pow
ered by two turboprop engines.
The 12,700-pound gross weight
plane was cost estimated at
$423,000 with a three cents per
seat mile cost.
Boyd’s team included Walter J.
Delury of Philadelphia, Pa.;
Melvin E. Durley, Pittsbury; Roy
S. Marlow, San Antonio; Michael
R. Murphy, Denver, Colo.; James
J. Rotter, LaGrange, and Morris
M. Stroman, Texarkana.
A twin boom fuselage arrange
ment was worked out by the Bag-
well team, mounting three turbo
prop engines developing 1,100
horsepower each. Two engines
were mounted in the booms at the
wing and the third was placed in
the rear of the passenger com
partment as a pusher.
The 16,000-pound gross weight
air taxi had an estimated $300,000
cost and 5.94 cents per seat mile
operation cost.
Working with Bagwell were
Thomas B. Laird Jr., and James
W. Howder of San Antonio;
Charles R. Nelms, Teaneck, N. J.;
Carl F. Hatch, Robert Lee, and
Ralph A. Dougherty, Griffin, Ga.
The teams’ reports included all
computations on structural design
analysis of the various aircraft
components, stability, control and
performance analysis and sys
tems and layout design.
Lowy said the team approach
to instruction in the design course
puts the student in an industry
like working situation. Team
competition parallels the system
of several aircraft builders bid
ding for the most economical air
craft, he added.
Russell, Mikan
named to team
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an, former Minneapolis Lakers
star, were named Tuesday as
centers on the National Basket
ball Association’s silver anniver
sary team.
Russell, who retired in 1969 as
the league’s all-time rebounding
leader with 21,721, was the only
unanimous choice for the squad
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Ags give money
to WSU fund in
Naming of coach
expected soon
place of banquet
FORT WORTH UP>—A selec-
tion committee drew near Tues-
day to naming a new football
coach at Texas Christian Uni-
versity with Jim Pittman of Tu.
lane believed one of the major
prospects.
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Texas A&M’s football squad Tuesday voted overwhelmingly
to forego a banquet in favor of sending $5,000 to the Wichita State
football fund.
At the same time, the Aggies named their four seniors as captains
for the past season and voted on the “Aggie Heart Award, the result of
which will be announced later.
Coach Gene Stallings praised his players for their decision to aid
Wichita State in lieu of a banquet for themselves. “It just proves the
high type of individuals who represent Texas A&M in football.
The criteria for the $5,000 figure was based on the cost of last
year’s banquet.
The Aggies open their 1971 football season at home against
Wichita State, a team they played here in the season’s opener last Sept.
12, in the first of a four-game series.
A&M’s four seniors elected as captains were All-America safety
Dave Elmendorf, from Houston Westbury; defensive guard Winston
Beam, from Odessa; offensive guard Jim Parker, from Gonzales and
punter Jimmy Sheffield, from Houston Waltrip.
All four voiced the hope that A&M’s sending money to Wichita
State in lieu of a banquet would start a trend among college football
squads across the nation.
Stallings said that his squad would have a get together later to
present the “Aggie Heart Award”, always a highlight of Texas A&M
football banquets. The five-foot high trophy goes to a senior, on a
squad vote, who has given his utmost in effort, desire and determina
tion, both on the practice field and in the playing arena.
Pittman, former top assistant
to Darrell Royal at Texas, visited
the TCU campus Monday. He
flew home to New Orleans afti
a half-day session.
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Sources said others under con
sideration for coach of the Horned
Frogs included Bennie Ellender
of Arkansas State and assistant
coaches Chet Franklin of Colo-
rado, Leroy Montgomery of Kai
sas State and Emory Bellard of
Texas.
Waldrop was one of a three-
man committee appointed
select a replacement for Fred
Taylor, fired in November after
four years as TCU head coach,
The vice chancellor said TCU
representatives had talked three
times by telephone with Pittman,
but he could not be interviewed
until after last Saturday’s Lib-
erty Bowl, in which Tulane de
feated Colorado 17-3.
Ag soccer team
Tulane, appearing in its first
bowl game in 30 years, finished
the season with a record of eight
victories and four losses.
third at tourney
The Texas Aggie soccer team
placed third in the season end
ing Texas Collegiate Soccer
League Invitational Tournament
at San Antonio.
of 10 retired players chosen by a
panel of experts.
Mikan, a 6-foot-10, 250-pounder
who paced the Lakers to titles in
1949-50-52-53-54, is regarded as
the first great pivot man of the
game.
Previously named to the squad
were forwards Dolph Schayes,
Paul Arizin, Joe Fulks and Bob
Pettit. The guards will be an
nounced Friday.
Texas Tech upset highly fav
ored UT-Austin, a team that was
unbeaten and only once tied in
the past three seasons, 2-0, to
win the championship.
The Aggies bounced Texas A&I,
3- 2, after being beaten in the
first round by the Longhorns,
4- 1. Only four of the 11 regular
starters made the trip for the
Aggies.
Tech had defeated another
highly favored team, St. Mary’s,
2-0, in the semifinals and the
penses during the team’s seven
road games this season.
A private contribution to the
club has also made it possible to
purchase portable goals, new
team jerseys and nets.
For the past three seasons, the
team has used cast-iron goals be
longing to the Physical Educa
tion Department and the nets in
the goals were made of four rot
ten tennis nets, which were
strung together and patched with
string.
The Texas Collegiate Soccer
League has expanded in the last
two years to the point where
next season it will be divided into
Northern and Southern divisions.
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host team for the tournament,
Trinity.
Final plans for the divisions
will be set up at a meeting in
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Southern division with Texas,
Rice, Houston, St. Mary’s, Trini
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lington and Midwestern.
Approximately 35 students
participated in the A&M soccer
team this season under a pro
gram organized by the A&M
Soccer club. The club receives no
support from the Athletic De
partment but did receive $500
from the Exchange Store fund
which was used to pay for ex-
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