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Castlégar News _ september 16,1967

SCIENCE

MICROWAVE
PLANE SPARKS
NASA INTEREST

KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) — Hobbyist Dunjoo Advani
has trouble understanding the world’s sudden, over-
whelming interest in his latest hand-built model airplane.

But publications as diverse as National Geographic
Magazine and the Soviet Union's official newspaper
Pravda have carried prophetic stories about the impli-
cations of his minature aircraft.

And scientists at the U.S. National Aeronautics and
Space Administration have said they'll be watching the
plane’s maiden flight with keen interest, scheduled to
take place soon over a field near Ottawa.

Advani, 25, says he merely pieced together 1.5 kilo-
grams of balsa wood into a craft that looks not unlike
something out of a box from a hobby shop.

The focus of the global interest, however, is not so
much the plane's construction as its revolutionary power
source — microwaves beamed up fronr the ground.

Equipped with a large, round receiving antenna near
its tail, the plane will generate electricity to power its
lone propeller using microwave energy sent from a
satellite dish on Earth.

MAKES DEBUT

If all goes well at a Department of Communications’
research centre near Ottawa, it will be the first flight of a
prototype microwave-fueled plane.

And if millions of dollars already invested at labora-
tories across ‘North America are any indication, it will
also be the dawn of a promising new age in flight.

NASA, for example, has already begun preliminary
studies on a high-flying, microwave craft that could stay

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) —
With a headset, a computer,
a map of the United States
and eight wall clocks set to
different time zones around
the world, Tim Ernst plugs
into the high-technology bus-
iness of organ matching.
Ernst, an organ placement
specialist, works in the nerve
centre of the United Network
for Organ Sharing, an agency
whose mission is rapidly
growing because of a U.8.
congressional mandate.
Terminals, printers and

to the life-and-death matter
of supplying organs for trans-
plant.

In one just-completed
match, Ernst said as he
punched information into a
computer, a yqung woman in
Texas was injured in an auto
accident and declared brain
dead within nine hours.

“They harvested . . | the

“T've placed both of the

More than 150 ‘calla a day
for hearts, lungs, kidneys and
livers filter through the
Organ Centre headqyarters.
That number is expected to
rise by Oct. 1, when all U.S.
transplant organizations
must join the network or lose
medieare program funding.

CREATE NETWORK

In 1984, the -National
Transplant Act stipulates the
creation of a national com-
puter transplant system. The
network was awarded a
$879,000 US federal contract
in October to pull together
the coGntry’s 110 organ-pro-
curement agencies, 200-plus
transplant centres and num-
erous tissue-typing labs.

Federal funding will in
crease to $1.8 million in 1988
as the workload grows.

The network must win the

plants, said executive direc-
tor Gene Pierce.

A 24-hour, voice-activated
computer handles any calls
that staff members cannot
get to, taking donor or re-
cipient information, proces-
sing it and running a match.

For recipients with less
than 12 hours to live, the
network alerts all transplant
centres within the area of the
patient that there is a critical
need for specific organs.

DEPENDS ON NEED

With more than 11,000
people anxiously waiting for
organs across the United
States, “the goal is that who-
ever is the most in need will
get the organ,” said Debra
Hearington, the network's
professional education co-
ordinator.

Organ recipients are
awarded points based on how
long the patient has been
waiting for a match, the
medical urgency of the

kidneys y evening
and this morning they called
me because they couldn't use
them in Houston, within their
region,” he said.

of the
of agencies, track every
donor and every organ it
hears about and document
the outcome of all trans-

patient's condi the prox-
imity to the donor and the
compatibility between donor
and recipient. The patient
with the highest point total

Computer pairs organs

receives the organ, Hearing-
ton said.

‘The centre placed 156 kid-
neys in June and 187 in July.
Of the July matches, four
were sent internationally, in-
cluding. one to Kuwait.

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aloft for 60 to 90 days to conduct ati ic tests and
ground observations.

The technology may also be used to drive robots on a
proposed U.S. mission to Mars, where the oxygen-de
prived atmosphere prevents the use of conventional,
combustible fuels.

The full-scale version of the Canadian plane would be
eight times the size of the model and act as a multi-pur.
pose transmission and monitoring station to replace
ground-based radio and TV towers, scientific balloons,
satellites and rockets.

Radar equipment for maritime surveillance is also
being considered.

It would be more effective than a stationary trans-
mission tower and more economical than a satellite, says
Ronald Barrington, director-general of radar and
communications technology at the department's labora.
tory in Shirley's Bay, Ont., west of Ottawa.

Barrington said a single plane would have the trans-
mission range of between 16 and 20 times that of a normal
FM radio station tower, or approximately the whole of
southern Ontario.

FLIES FLAG

Emblazoned with a Canadian Flag, Advani's red-and.
white test plane is based on rough geometric patterns
sketched by a six-member team from University of
Toronto. The microwave and electronic equipment was
designed by the Department of Communications.

Advani was called in on the program because of his
graduate work in aerospace engineering at the
University of Toronto, and his 12-year passion for de-
signing, building and flying his own radio-controlled
model airplanes.

He belongs to the Kingston Radio-Control Modelers,
a hobby ciub that regularly flies homemake models in a
field north of nearby Odessa, Ont.

“T've loved airplanes ever since I can remember,” he
says.

Research into the design of the plane, known as
SHARP (for Stationary High-Altitude Relay Platform),
has been conducted at the university's Institute for
Aerospace Studies for the past five years.

Advani entered the masters degree program in
aerospace engineering in 1985 and is researching a thesis
on the potential effects of ozone on the materials used in
constructing the plane

I found some very interesting results,” he said.
“Ozone deteriorates the mechanical properties of every
material we subjected to it" except balsa wood.

If Ottawa continues to finance the program, a
one-third scale prototype will be built, with the full-size
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