July 31, 1950

July 31, 1950

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Headline News

Combat Reports Prove F-80 Can Take It

By A. W. Jessup8 min

Headline News

Plans Rushed for Big Spending Program

By Alexander McSurely5 min

Headline News

P&w "Story" Tells of Long Planning

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Combat Reports Prove F-80 Can Take It

An Air Base in Japan—The F-80 Shooting Star has passed its first combat tests with higher marks than the U. S. Air Force or Lockheed Aircraft Corp. expected. It has given close support to ground troops up to 400 miles from its operating base.

By A. W. Jessup8 min

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Plans Rushed for Big Spending Program

Services charting procurement course; industry set to turn out more planes.

By Alexander McSurely5 min

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P&w "Story" Tells of Long Planning

The U. S. aircraft industry again has been called upon to expand production after the fighting has started. This time, with more manpower, more tools, more space and more know how, it is in a better position to swell than it was in 1941. But the product it will deliver in increasing volume will still be the fruits of developments of four and five years ago—nutured with difficulty in the arid climate of a peacetime economy.
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More Plane Unwrapping Ordered

Air Force reconditioning contracts near $50 million for two months; Navy providing its own facilities.

By Ben S. Lee3 min

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Air Aid Abroad

AF to pay $284 million for planes and parts in foreign arms program.
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Manpower Controls Seen Out for Now

Manpower and wage controls—the major concern of aircraft manufacturers in meeting new production goals to support the Korean war effort—are probably out until after the November elections and politicking after the labor vote eases. Chairman Stuart Symington of the National Security Resources Board told the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that manpower would become a key problem for defense producers over the next few months as the war program gets under way.
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Jessup Covers the Korean War

A. W. (Bill) Jessup, McGraw-Hill World News correspondent who wrote the accompanying first-hand report of U. S. air operations in Korea, has been McGraw-Hill World News correspondent in the Far East for four years. His assignments have carried him from his base at Tokyo to China, Burma and now Korea, to which he lately has been “commuting” from Japan.
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U. S. Manufacturers Visit British Plants

Beautiful workmanship and design in new British aircraft displayed to U. S. aircraft manufacturers during their recent Farnborough visit and tour of British plants were cited last week by Adm. DeWitt C. Ramsey, president of the U. S. Aircraft Industries Assn.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Pilot’s Job Analyzed in Psychology Lab

Searching studies aloft aim to create efficient pilot-equipment team.
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Hypersonic and Unsteady Flow Studies

NACA reports on two years of aerodynamic tests and calculations.
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