March 27, 1950

March 27, 1950

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Headline News

Big Year Assured for Plane Makers

By William Kroger13 min

Headline News

Temporary Truce on Air Budget

Headline News

Modified B-25 Pushed as Trainer

By Alexander McSurely4 min

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Headline News

Big Year Assured for Plane Makers

Backlogs and better facilities add up to best business outlook since war ended.

By William Kroger13 min

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Headline News

Temporary Truce on Air Budget

House group tentatively approves President’s 1951 AF and Navy aviation budgets, but bits fund impounding.
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Headline News

Modified B-25 Pushed as Trainer

North American claims B-25-J would cost AF one-fifth what it pays for new navigation trainers.

By Alexander McSurely4 min

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

What Is Actual Value of Service Testing?

Students of question say that one way to find out is use of probabilities methods of evaluation.
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PRODUCTION

Electric Ovens

Help solar control heat in fabricating stainless steel jet engine parts.
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EDITORIAL

The Impact of Air Coach

Free enterprise is having another fling in the air transport industry. It is proving to be an energetic ghost— perhaps too energetic for its own good. For the most part, untrammeled airline competition was laid to rest by the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938.

By C.L.A.6 min

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FINANCIAL

How Martin, C-W Have Improved

New managements and new policies have put the two large companies on road to better financial health.

By Selig Altschul5 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Carriers’ Reports List 1949 Profits

Results of last year’s traffic boom are continuing to make pleasant reading for airline stockholders. Annual reports issued recently by United Air Lines, Northwest Airlines, Capital Airlines and Chicago & Southern Air Lines all disclose substantial profits for 1949.
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AVIONICS

Strain Gage Reading At A Glance

London—An apparatus which automatically accepts and displays in rapid succession readings from any number of strain gages has been constructed by the research department of Airspeed Ltd., Hampshire, England, for testing aircraft structures.
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SALES & SERVICE

Insurance Plan for Fixed-Basers

Arrangements by Americo with NATA and AOPA are expected to cover 2000 operators, 10,000 planes.
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