October 30, 1950

October 30, 1950

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Headline News

Missiles Super-agency Fast Taking Shape

By Ben S. Lee8 min

Headline News

Industry Dos?

By Alexander McSurely5 min

Headline News

Congressional Roundup

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Headline News

Missiles Super-agency Fast Taking Shape

Keller of Chrysler and Maj. Gen. Nichols slated for top posts in new organization.

By Ben S. Lee8 min

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Headline News

Industry Dos?

Washington is studying priorities for transport plane manufacturers.

By Alexander McSurely5 min

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Congressional Roundup

New Commands. Washington expects Secretary of Defense Gen. George Marshall’s resignation before 1951 has progressed far. Billed as Marshall’s successor is able Under Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett, with a long record as a friend of aviation.
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Headline News

Flight Safety Foundation Makes Awards

Unusual recognition has been accorded the safety contributions of airline pilots in two of the four annual awards of the Flight Safety Foundation. Citation of captains and crews of American Airlines and British European Airways marks one of the few recent occasions airline pilots have been honored for achievements in the routine performance of their duties, rather than for special engineering or research work.
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Headline News

Martin Prototype 4-0-4 Takes the Air

Prototype of the new Glenn L. Martin 4-0-4 transport is flying at Baltimore, while the Martin company presses along with other transport manufacturers for defense order priorities to get its 4-0-4 production line rolling. Delivery schedules call for the first production 4-0-4 to be ready early next spring, with total orders for 75 planes— 40 for TWA and 35 for Eastern Airlines—now booked.
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Headline News

Off-hours at Annual Iata Conference

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Aeronautical Engineering

New Props for Turbine Power

Series developed by Curtiss-Wright specifically designed for turboprop service in subsonic, transonic, supersonic ranges.

By Irving Stone12 min

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Air Transport

U. S. Market Brightens for British

But obstacles may be reluctance to buy foreign planes and fear of being unable to get needed spare parts.
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Editorial

Why Sneer at Air Freight?

We continue to be amazed at a condescending attitude toward air freight and its future by people who should know better. One of the most recent nonsensical outbursts of palayer, of course, is the recent examiner’s report recommending to the Civil Aeronautics Board that neither of two all-freight applicants be certificated on the vital trans-Atlantic trade lanes because prospects for air freight between the U. S. and Europe are so poor that no new blood is justified.

By Robert H. Wood5 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

Canberra 2, By English Electric

Canberra Mk. 2, tactical version of England’s first jet bomber, is now in production. It will be the first version of the Canberra to enter service with the Royal Air Force. Mk. 2 carries a three-man crew in a pressurized cabin; recognition differences from Mk. 1 are transparent plastic nose fairing and window on port side.
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