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Following up on the 1976 hearings on "The Future of Aviation," 

 the Milford subcommittee in July 1978 held three days of overview 

 hearings entitled "First 'A' in NASA." Milford chaired the hearings 

 the first day during testimony by NASA witnesses; I. lend the second 

 day for the testimony of Dr. Robert Loewv, Chairman of the NASA 

 Aeronautics Advisory Committee and George Benning of the Collins 

 Avionics Group; while Glickman chaired the third day devoted to 

 the testimony of F. Allen Cleveland, president of the American Insti- 

 tute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, and Dr. Jan Roskam of the 

 University of Kansas Department of Aerospace Engineering and also 

 Standly J. Green of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association. 

 Glickman, from Wichita, told the subcommittee that "my district 

 produces over half of all airplanes made in the world, mostlv general 

 aviation aircraft." 



The subcommittee report on these major hearings once again 

 underlined the subcommittee's continued stress on the need for expand- 

 ing long-term basic research and technology in such areas as super- 

 sonic aircraft; large, all-weather vertical take-off-and-landing trans- 

 ports; and other fields where the FAA had traditionally been 

 responsible, namely, aircraft operating systems and navigation. 



Some more internal dissension came to the surface as the biennial 

 congressional elections of 1978 approached. Teague and Milford both 

 approved a Lloyd request to hold a one-day subcommittee hearing 

 on August 25 at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. Lloyd invited 

 other members of the subcommittee to attend and participate in a 

 hearing on automated weather services, navigation and final approach 

 equipment and transponder R. & D. technology. Goldwater lodged a 

 protest on the grounds that the hearing was simply a campaign gim- 

 mick, Milford decided the issue was too hot for him to handle, and 

 on August 16 bucked it back to Teague. 



In a letter to Milford, Teague stated: 



I have your letter of August 16. The hearing in Pomona, California will not 

 be cancelled. I approved it and it will be held. If you cannot go, or do not care to 

 go, the next ranking member of the subcommittee will chair the hearing. 



Lloyd of course was the next ranking member. 



Teague then expressed his exasperation in a letter to Goldwater: 



Barry, I was severely criticized by some Democratic members of the committee 

 because I approved your trip to Hawaii. Numerous members have had hearings in 

 their Districts and it you want one in your District, I will certainly approve it. I 

 have just been criticized for a trip that Bob Dornan took. It hasn't been all Republican 

 or all Democrat. Our committee needed someone who had been to Hawaii and knew 



