AIRCRAFT SURVIVABILITY SYMPOSIUM The American Defense Preparedness Association/National Security Industrial Association's Combat Survivability Division is sponsoring an Aircraft Survivability Symposium in cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Helicopter Society, Aerospace Industries Association, Air Line Pilots Association, National Defense Transportation Association, Joint Technical Coordinating Group on Aircraft Survivability, Joint Strike Fighter Program, Naval Air Systems Command, and Army Aviation Research, Development and Engineering Center. The symposium will be held on October 21-23, 1997 at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. The symposium will examine current and emerging technologies and system applications that will enable both military and commercial aircraft to better withstand damage induced by hostile action and peacetime accidents. Symposium sessions will include Perspectives on Operational Requirements and Vulnerability Reduction, Transport Aircraft: More Safe and Less Vulnerable, Hit Avoidance vs. Damage Tolerance: Determining the Right Survivability Balance, Advanced Technology: Key to Vulnerability Reduction, and Affordable/Survivable Aircraft: A Design Challenge. For more information contact ADPA/NSIA about Event #894 at (703) 522-1820, Fax (703) 522-1885, or E-Mail mbilowich@adpansia.org. E-MAIL: crawfordmt.jfk@navair.navy.mil, crawfordmt.jfk@navair.navy.mil.

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