May 15, 1950

May 15, 1950

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Headline News

Prototype Fund Need Set Before Senate

By Alexander McSurely6 min

Headline News

Air Force Stars May Shine Brighter

Headline News

Redesigned Wing Marks New Jet Fighter

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Headline News

Prototype Fund Need Set Before Senate

Hearings accent gap between $12.5-million U.S. test plan and heavy British outlay.

By Alexander McSurely6 min

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Headline News

Air Force Stars May Shine Brighter

Air Force will gain three four-star generals and 10 three-star generals if legislation introduced on Capitol Hill last week is enacted. Bills introduced simultaneously by Sen. Millard Tydings (S-3496) and Rep. Overton Brooks (HR-8277) would place USAF for the first time on an equal status with Army and Navy.
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Headline News

Redesigned Wing Marks New Jet Fighter

YF-96A, developed from Republic’s Thunderjet, features swept wing.
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Headline News

Rcaf Orders Ten Cf-100 Fighters

USAF may buy a few of Avro Canada’s all-weather twin jets to evaluate against the F-89 Scorpion.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Transport Best Bet: Axial-flow Jets

Turbojets now offer speed and simplicity; yet to come is cure for ‘fuel hunger.’

By Winnett Boyd21 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Alp A-airline Talks Near Climax

Faster, more productive transports endanger job security, pilots feel; management worried over ‘featherbedding.’

By Charles Adams6 min

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FINANCIAL

Paa’s Picture

CAB mail pay awards and carrier’s estimates for 1949 seem far apart.

By Selig Altschul5 min

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EDITORIAL

Transport Revolution and Statesmanship

The revolution in air passenger transportation seems well under way. The certificated airlines are slowly appealing to the mass travel market which the non-scheduled carriers first began to tap. Generally, scheduled airline fares will be lower this summer than last, and forceful promotion of packaged excursions and all-expense vacations may give air passenger figures a boost unprecedented in peace-time or war.

By Robert H. Wood4 min

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NEWS SIDELIGHTS

News Sidelights

President Truman and his Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson are no longer seeing eye to eye on the outlook for Defense Department expenditures. At his press conference May 4, the President stated that the Administration was not alarmed over the international situation and that the defense budget for the 1952 fiscal year would be smaller than the 1951 fiscal year budget now pending in the Congress.
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Shortlines

Air Transport Assn.—Sam Saint, director of ATA’s Air Navigation and Traffic Control div., told the American Society of Mechanical Engineers that airline safety would be improved by use of: Lighted distance markers, consisting of signs with numbers large enough to read placed every 500 ft. along runways; better altimeters—designed to read like odometers, inherently self-checking, and equipped with a limit warning-switch that could be set by a pilot to attract attention if the flight path goes below a safe altitude for the area involved; angle of attack indicators with a signal to call attention to stalling danger on landing approaches.
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