August 28, 1950

August 28, 1950

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Headline News

New Orders Coming for Tactical Planes

By Ben Lee6 min

Headline News

What’s Ahead in Congress

Headline News

Props on Top

By Alexander McSurely3 min

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Headline News

New Orders Coming for Tactical Planes

USAF to up buying of assault transports, light bombers, copters, longe-range fighters.

By Ben Lee6 min

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Headline News

What’s Ahead in Congress

The House Armed Services Committiee Chairman Carl Vinson is at the helm, steering the country’s defense program and mapping its future course. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, whose energies since the Korean outbreak have been so largely dissipated in personal, political, and policy feuding with the State Department and scores of congressmen, has not yet challenged the new leadership.
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Headline News

Props on Top

In dollars and weight, propeller planes will exceed jet purchases.

By Alexander McSurely3 min

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Headline News

Australia Builds British Designs

Hawker P.1081, new sweptwing jet, joins Canberra, Lincoln and Vampire for 'Down-Under' production.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGIN EERING

Trainer Competition: Fairchild, Beech and Temco

Evaluation at Randolph AFB will correlate student’s progress with plane he flew.

By David A. Anderton9 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

Passenger Reaction to Turboprop

BEA assigns Viscount prototype to busy London-Paris route, and here’s what the customers think about it.

By Frederick R. Brewster7 min

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EDITORIAL

Mr. Ryan and His Voting Record

Some propagandists contend that you can make the people believe anything if you repeat a statement often enough. For some time now we have been noting occasional but persistent references by one or two writers to the effect that the Civil Aeronautics Board’s vice chairman, Oswald Ryan, is a “friend of Pan American,” or a “long-time advocate of the chosen instrument.

By Robert H. Wood5 min

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FINANCIAL

‘shelter’ Vs. Excess Profits Tax

Value Line, advisory service, points out protection that may be afforded by earnings in base period.

By Selig Altschul4 min

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Air Transpoart

Carrier Reports

Domestic trunkline net profits remain high, but dip below first-half ’49.
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EQUIPMENT

Airlines Buying Dural Propellers

Douglas DC-6Bs, Martin 2-0-2As and 4-0-4s slated to use Hamilton Standard units; 30% cost saving.
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