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I i« W L Where Quality Makes the Difference JL ^ 105 Boyett, College Station 84'6-8794 EMANUEL ZJ MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society February 25, 1985 8:00 p.m. Rudder Auditorium MSC B6x Office 845-1234 Will perform: Haydn’s Sonato in F major Ravel’s Vaises nobles et sentimentales Liszt's Paraphrase on Verdi's “Aida" and Paraphrase on Verdi's “Rigolettb" Chopin s Ballade No. 1-No. 4 your advertising dollars do better in the classifieds Around town leiigiKsn proficiency exam oftereci ■■■■■■■■I p.m. to 9 p.m. lo order to qualify ■■■■■■ date for a degree in the College Sidetoce, each student must dteru- chemistry, mathematics and physics should register for the exam in 313 BSBW prior to the exam. Defensive driving class begins Friday p Union tech, Inc. is sponsoring a defensive driving course at the Brazos Center, 3232 Briarcrest, on Friday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon. The course may be used for traf fic ticket dismissal or a 10 percent reduction on most automobile in surance policies. The fee is $20 (cash) and registration is At the door. For more information, call 693-1322. Honor society will award scholarships National Phi Eta Sigma will award nine $1,000 scholarships and 30 $500 scholarships for seniors planning to attend graduate or pro fessional school in the fall of 1985. Interested members of Phi Eta Sigma should contact Dr, Lard in JU3 System Administration Build ing. Local deadline for application is Feb. 20. Writing contest deadline Is Friday The Texas AScM Writing Contest will be accepting poetry and. short stories from graduate and undergraduate students through Friday. Entries can be sent through the campus mail or delivered di rectly to the English Department mailroom. Address entries to The Texas A&M Writing Contest. Students may submit up to three poems and/or one short story. All entries must he typed and must not include student's name on the poems or short stories. A 3x5 in dex card should include name, address and phone number. The contest will publish up to 15 poems and up to five short stories. . TAMU Overseas Day held Thursday Sponsored by the Study Abroad Office and MSC Travel Com mittee, TAMU out about inter- ciation and MSC International Programs Committee. Representa tives will have tables set up in the MSC Main Lounge from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Please stop by and feel Free to discuss the merits of cultural and educational international travel, j : After Hours offers driver safety course The TAMU After Boors Program will sponsor a Driver Saftey Course Friday and Saturday. This Course may be used to have cer tain traffic violations dismissed and to receive a 19 percent discount on most Automobile insurance fees. Registration is held 8 a.m. p.m. Monday through Friday in 216 MSC. call 845-1515. For more information, |j Engineering Dept, sponsors seminar The first in a series of seminars organized by the Industrial Engi-, neering Department interchange Committee will be held today 102 Zacbry. Dr. Neal McCollum, supervisor of th< * group at General Dynamics-Fort Worth, will spt Integrated Manufacturing”. The Tndnst rial meat plans to sponsor a monthly series of general mterescseminars . with speakers from i variety of disciplines. Garage business may get military contract Associated Press DUNCANVILLE — Three years ago, Bill Adaska started making ul tralight aircraft in his garage. Today he has designed a battle field version of the plane and is sell ing it to the U.S. government. Adaska, the 39-year-old founder of Rotec Engineering, says his $10,000 Panther Plus can be out fitted to destroy $5 million Soviet he licopters or can be used as stealthy “covert communications” vehicles. Adaska says he is waiting for the “paper work” to make its way through the Pentagon, clearing the Way for shipment of three military versions of his new aircraft. The Panther, unlike most ultra lights, has a closed cockpit and wings With a double airfoil, like conventio nal airplanes, allowing it to fly twice as fast as the original 30 mph model. Adaska started Rotec 10 years ago as a free-lance engineering business in his garage in Duncanville. Three years ago, he put up a sign announcing he built recreational ul tralight aircraft — small, open planes for weekend pilots. By last year, he had the Panther on the drawing board. Although a brightly colored ver sion of the Panther Plus fits in well With Rotec’s line of recreational air craft, Adaska, a former helicopter development and test engineer for Aerospatiale Helicopter Corp., said “the plane has a lot of bang for the bucks” as a military craft. For less than $10,000 per aircraft, Rotec can give the U.S. Army a craft capable of destroying Soviet-made Hind series advanced attack helicop- ers, Adaska said. By attaching various kinds of va rious types of missiles to the Panth er’s wing strutts and giving the pilot night vision goggles, the Panther can be tailor-made for shooting down the $5 million Soviet helicopter, Ad aska claims. But price isn’t the only advantage. Adaska says by replacing the plane’s aluminum wing components with fi berglass, the little aircraft is quickly converted into Duncanville’s first stealth aircraft — hard to detect with radar. The Panther’s double muffler sys tem makes the craft relatively quiet, reducing engine noise to 58 decibels, and the engine is covered with ra dar-absorbent paint. But the Panther’s military uses don’t have to be restricted to night- capades. Adaska said the Air Force plans to test Panthers as battlefield satellites for use as “covert communications relay platforms.” A remote control version of the craft could be used to relay informa tion through laser signals from com mand post to tanks and other posi tions. Israel has been using radio-con trolled ultralights to draw anti-air craft fire as a means of spotting the battery, Adaska said. Because the ultralight aircraft can be packed into a crate 5 feet by 3 feet by 18 feet, Adaska thinks his Pan ther would be ideal for rescuing sol diers and pilots behind enemy lines. He imagines the crated plane could be dropped from another air craft, and then assembled by the stranded pilot, who then would fly out. If Rotec wins a military contract to mass produce the Panther, Adaska said he plans to set up a separate op eration in Duncanville to handle the defense business and its related pa per work. Several of his engieering contacts at LTV Corp., Bell Helicopter Tex tron and Aerospatiale have ex pressed interest in setting up sepa rate Rotec defense operations, he said. 2 FOR 1 IS BACK! No place has 2 for 1 drinks anymore. But Samson & Deli- lah has 2 for 1 haircuts as a special offer to you, the cus tomer, thru Mar. 31st with this coupon. Samson & Delilah 1510 Holleman, College Station, Tx. Open Mon-Sat 698-1712 Papal Pvffl* Large Pizza .$3.99 99$ pe/i e/xt/uL item -soft drink refills 250- Open 11 a.m.-past midnight 846-0079 846-3824 509 University Drive “REALITIES OF THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION: AN OVERVIEW, INCLUDING HEALTH CARE, RECENT ELECTIONS, AND THE CONTRA WAR” a talk and slide show with Bill Beardall, Dallas attorney with Texas Rural Legal Aid. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 8:00 p.m. College Station Community Center 1300 Jersey, Room 106 CO-SPOMSORED BY STUDENT PEACE ACTION xiL**. 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