February 13, 1950

February 13, 1950

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Headline News

First U. S. Turboprop Transport Near

By Alexander McSurely6 min

Headline News

Af Sees F-84s as B-36 Parasites

Headline News

Taxi Group Elects Garside President

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Headline News

First U. S. Turboprop Transport Near

General Motors to finance installation of T-38 engines in Convair due to fly in June.

By Alexander McSurely6 min

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Headline News

Af Sees F-84s as B-36 Parasites

Air Force is planning “parasite” installation of two Republic F-84 Thunderjet fighters under the wings of the Convair B-36 bomber. This surprising revival of the idea of parasite fighters for the huge bomber is a reversal of policy after the parasite was dismissed as an active Air Force project on the basis of experience with the McDonnell XF-85 Goblin jet fighter.
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Headline News

Taxi Group Elects Garside President

Joe Garside, president of Wiggins Airways, Norwood, Mass., was elected president of the newly organized Air Taxi Conference of America at a meeting in Washington last week. Bob Northington, of Piedmont Aviation, Inc., Winston-Salem, N. C., was named first vice president, and Sam Freeman of Somerset Air Service, Somerville, N. J., second vice president.
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Aeronautical Engineering

What a Spray Plane Should Have

Low-wing design, with better than 200 hp. and payload of 1250 lb., should replace makeshift agricultural craft.

By A. Howard Hasbrook11 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Canberra: First British-built Jet Bomber

Small size and short range of plane, while having little utility by U. S. standards, fit England’s basic needs.

By Robert McLarren10 min

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Production

Latest Usaf Bid Awards

Air Materiel Command Procurement Division makes available to AVIATION WEEK the latest bid awards, shown on this page. Requests for further information should be addressed to Contracting Officer, AMC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, attention MCPPSX72.
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Air Transport

New Subsidy-separation Proposal

Officials interpret new study made by Ernst & Ernst to favor cutting mail rates to passenger rate level.
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Aeronautical Engineering

Ias Papers

This is the third and last installment of digests of papers given at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences in New York City, Jan. 23-26. (See AVIATION WEEK, Jan. 30 and Feb. 6, for other summaries.) Airline pilot Questionnaire Study on Cockpit Visibility Problems—T. M. Edwards, Civil Aeronautics Administration.
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Financial

Air Shares Help Trust Valuation

But National Aviation Corp., with exclusive industry holdings, has been making periodic shifts of interest.

By Seling Altschul5 min

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NEWS SIDELIGHTS

News Sidelights

Navy and Air Force are fighting legislation requiring them to give “a fair and substantial portion” of procurement contracts to small business firms employing less than 500. They claim it would shackle an impossible administrative burden on them to carry out the policy.
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