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Link-Tempco-Vaught. Hiller and Ryan, the Curtiss-Wright X-19, the Bell X-22A, the Lockheed XV-4A, and the General Electric/Ryan lift fan configuration. If federal government sponsorship of scheduled helicopter service is abandoned, there can be no assurance that these aircraft will be developed so as to meet not only military requirements but also meet commercial standards giving full consideration to the degree of safety and reliability, stability and control, passenger and crew features, and operation cost characteristics essential for commercial scheduled transport service.
Moreover, intensive activity in this same area is being undertaken in England, Japan, West Germany and France. If American manufacturers are to maintain their present lead in this area and if the United States is to be an exporter rather than an importer of vertical lift aircraft, it is essential that the close working relationship between the civil air carriers of the United States and the manufacturers working in the VTOL/STOL field be maintained.
(2) Instrument Flight Operations and Navigation. 
On February 16, 1965, New York Airways received authority from the FAA to utilize the Decca Navigator System to permit it to conduct operations both en route and at the terminal area under IFR condition. The Decca System shows the pilot visually the geographical location of his helicopter and a stylus inscribes on a local area map the exact path being flown enabling the pilot to fly directly to his destination, much as a motorist follows a road map. The instruments comprising the Decca System are manufactured by the Bendix Corporation, the Laboratory for Electronics, General Precision and other companies.