THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1981
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New airports needed
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jLisa Brown, Texas A&M Horiticulture Club president, dis
plays some of the Fredricksburg ‘Loring’ peaches on sale at
ithe Plant Sciences Building. A bumper crop of peaches this
summer has left an ample supply on the market. The sale is a
fund-raising project for the club. Each Vz-bushel box of
peaches sells for $12.00 ... while they last.
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ship to serve as "floating
leadquarters’ for Titanic search
General aviation airports
throughout Texas are inadequate
and 25 new urban airports are
needed for the state to continue
attracting industry, says a Texas
Transporation Institute resear
cher.
Many existing general aviation
airports have not been maintained
or modernized and require sub
stantial investment to bring them
up to acceptable standards, notes
George B. Dresser, statistician at
TTI.
General aviation airports serve
privately owned aircraft and not
commercial air carriers, including
planes for agricultural aviation,
charter flying and special pur
poses such as emergency medical
service. Dresser said these air
ports provide for separation of
large and small airplanes and pro
vide for efficient movement of air
traffic.
New plants locating in smaller
communities in the South have an
increasing dependence on corpo
rate and business aviation, he
said.
The backlog of general aviation
airport grant applications for state
and federal funds exceeds $50 mil
lion. Dresser said without sub
stantial changes in funding, this
backlog will increase and condi
tions of general aviation airports
in Texas will continue to decline.
Dresser said some existing air
ports must be reconstructed, and
others need to be replaced be
cause the present site is no longer
adequate. Many cannot handle
the larger, faster aircraft used by
industry executives.
He said Texas has relied on pri
vately owned airports, particulary
in urban areas. But airports no
longer represent the highest
priced use of land for a private
owner, and except for a few oper
ated by aviation enthusiasts,
urban airports are fast dis
appearing.
Land costs, public opposition
and airspace considerations make
it increasingly difficult to locate
new general aviation airports in
urban areas. Dresser said that
smaller communities have neither
the support nor the tax base to
develop airports to meet the
needs of the cities.
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The search by a Texas oilman
the ill-fated liner Titanic has
own the spotlight on one of the
nation s busiest research ships —
the 174-foot Gyre, operated by
Texas A&M University.
| The Navy-owned Gyre will
serve as the floating headquarters
for the Titanic expedition, says the
Texas A&M official in charge of
the ship.
I Despite the glamour attached
to the Titanic hunt, science will
proceed as usual aboard the Gyre,
said Capt. T.K. Treadwell, an
oceanographer and manager of the
University’s marine operations.
Although the research vessel is
taking part in the Titanic venture,
it does so as a part of a two-month
long series of geological and
oceanographic studies in the
tlantic scheduled last year,
readwell said.
Although many people see only
the glamour involved in the hunt
for the Titanic — which sank in
1912 at a cost of more than 1,500
lives — the project will have im
portant scientific merits, Tread
well said.
“The technology being tested in
locating and photographing the
Titanic could be used by the Navy
in rescuing submarine crews or in
recovering valuable or sensitive
equipment from the ocean bed,”
he said.
The Gyre carries a crew of 10
and can accommodate up to 19 sci
entists and their equipment, he
said.
( Simply running the research
(vessel costs about $6,000 a day,
^Treadwell said, but that figure
didn’t worry Abilene oil mil
lionaire and Titanic hunter Jack
he is in thef Grimm since the cost is below av
erage for such a research vessel.
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Demands on the Gyre for scien
tific studies and student training
have been so great, Treadwell
said, that voyages must often be
scheduled a year ahead of time.
During recent times, the ship
has averaged 280 days a year away
from its home port of Galveston,
putting into other harbors only for
supplies, repairs or to pick up a
new group of scientists.
In 1979 the Gyre set a new work
record of 349 days away from
home.
Equipment aboard the ship in
cludes such standard research in
struments as salinographs, ther
mographs, a computer, a magne
tometer, dredges, sample bottles
and other instruments for study
ing the sea and ocean bottom,
Treadwell said. Like seagoing sci
entists everywhere, those aboard
the Gyre often lease any highly
specialized equipment rather than
buying the piece, he said.
The Gyre had already been
scheduled by researchers at
Scripps Institution of Oceanogra
phy and the U.S. Geological Sur
vey to carry out two other scien
tific voyages in the Atlantic when
the opportunity came up to add
the Titanic project, he said.
“The three cruises are so closely
related in nature (basic seafloor
geology and water sampling) that
the Gyre won’t return to port after
the Titanic phase,” Treadwell
said.
“Many of the scientists and
much of their equipment will stay
on board for all three experi
ments.”
No Texas A&M scientists will
be aboard the Gyre during the
summer Atlantic cruises, which
Treadwell said it is not unusual.
Most of the major oceanog
raphic study centers routinely
swap scientists and ships to make
the most efficient use of limited
research money, he said.
The Gyre left its summer base
of operations at Woods Hole,
Mass., in early June and won t re
turn until a geological study of the
Georges Bank region is completed
later this month, Treadwell said.
From there, the ship is sche
duled to sail to South Carolina,
Brazil and along the equator be
fore returning to Galveston in late
December.
Treadwell said one emphasis of
the Texas A&M oceanographic
program has been the hands-on
training of students, making the
University one of only a handful
that can offer students such ex
perience before graduation.
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