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This is a CIA-held JPRS translation of an editor's column by Col V. Anuchin, editor in chief of the Soviet magazine AVIATSIYA I KOSMONAVTIKA. It appeared in issue No 6 of June 1990. Anuchin says the magazine is at a turning point and asks readers for suggestions. He promises coverage of Air Force training reform, flight safety, a pilot's legal right to make mistakes, and the protection of aviation personnel. He adds that the magazine will be a source of information on the space program, unidentified flying objects and puzzling phenomena.
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Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1990 Document 11 of 16 Page 1 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Document Date: 01 Jun 90 Status: [STAT] Category: [CAT] Report Type: Report Date: Report Number: UDC Number: Author(s): Col V. Anuchin, editor in chief of AVIATSIYA I KOSMONAVTIKA: ''Editor's Column''] Headline: Editor's Column Source Line: 90SV0038B Moscow AVIATSIYA I KOSMONAVTIKA in Russian No 6, Jun 90 (signed to press 29 Apr 90) p 5 Subslug: [Message to the readers by Col V. Anuchin, editor in chief of AVIATSIYA I KOSMONAVTIKA: ''Editor's Column''] FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Message to the readers by Col V. Anuchin, editor in chief of AVIATSIYA I KOSMONAVTIKA: "'Editor's Column'"] 2. [Text] Dear Readers! AVIATSIYA I KOSMONAVTIKA is presently experiencing a turning point. The editorial staff is faced with an important, difficult task: how to restructure our work in such a manner that the magazine becomes a friend, adviser and defender for those who serve in the Air Force and for those with an interest in aviation. 3. We are fully aware of the fact that AVIATSIYA I KOSMONAVTIKA as it was in 1988 and 1989 was far from fully satisfying the interests of the aviation professionals among its subscribers. The time has come to make a change in direction. What the magazine is to become depends in large measure on you, valued readers, on your suggestions and recommendations. We therefore urge you to take a few minutes and present your view: what would you like to see this magazine become? 4. We feel that in the present situation we must conduct a detailed discussion of radical restructuring of the system of training used by Air Force units and subunits, since in our opinion the old approaches to its organization have not only totally outlived their usefulness but have even become an impediment on the road toward the heights of military expertise. The staff awaits constructive suggestions from pilots and navigators, engineers and technicians, scientists and teachers, rear services and communications specialist personnel. 5. A no less critical item on the agenda is problems pertaining to ensuring flight safety. The existing principle of finding the guilty parties rather than the causes of air mishaps not only fails to help reduce the accident rate but, on the contrary, further aggravates the
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.