January 15, 1951

January 15, 1951

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Headline News

Russian Planes

Headline News

Lightplane Year

Headline News

Orders Roll: Af Issues $4.5 Billion Worth

By Aviation Week’s Washington Staff3 min

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Headline News

Russian Planes

First close-up photos snipped from newsreel captured in Korea.
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Headline News

Lightplane Year

1950 closes strong but producers worry about priorities situation.
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Headline News

Orders Roll: Af Issues $4.5 Billion Worth

Eight air frame, four engine, two propeller companies get bulk of fiscal 1951 business.

By Aviation Week’s Washington Staff3 min

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Headline News

Long-range F-84f Strikes with Guns, Bombs, Rockets

Latest version of the Thunderjet, Republic’s sweptwing F-84F, will bring greater speed and firepower to the plane’s fighter-bomber role. No specific data of the F’s potential are yet available. But following the Phase Two flight tests recently completed at Edwards AFB, Muroc, Calif., word went out that the sweptwing F far out-performed its predecessor, the E, in every category.
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Aeronautical Engineering

Viking Flights Prove Research Worth

Martin-built test vehicle, designed to investigate upper atmosphere, completes six successful launchings.
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Air Transport

Cca Air Coach

West Coast intrastate carrier shows low-cost passenger service pays.

By Thomas M. Self11 min

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Air Transport

Priority Plan Complex But Clearing

CAA now issues ratings, but newer proposal of ACC is the government’s first step toward World War II system.

By F. Lee Moore8 min

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Equipment

Airlines Buying More Equipment

Delta’s purchases increase 60 percent in three years; mobilization complications anticipated.
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Financial

’50 Profits Rested on Solid Base

But recent entry of auto firms into aircraft picture dims otherwise bright prospects for high 1951 returns.

By Selig Altschul5 min

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Aeronautical Engineering

New Acoustical Plan Kills Tunnel Noise

Wide frequency range starting at 5 cps. is handled by novel scheme using resonators, Fiberglas panels.
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