March 19, 1951

March 19, 1951

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USAF Awards

Usaf Awards

AIR TRANSPORT

Nonsked Role

AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Prop Extrusion Is Production Milestone

By Irving Stone6 min

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USAF Awards

Usaf Awards

Air Materiel Command Procurement Division makes available to AVIATION WEEK recent bid awards, shown on this page. Requests for further information should be addressed to Contracting Officer, AMC, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, attention:
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AIR TRANSPORT

Nonsked Role

CAB eases irregulars’ regulations as carrier shortage looms.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Prop Extrusion Is Production Milestone

Great savings will result from fabrication system developed by AMC with Curtiss-Wright and others.

By Irving Stone6 min

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EQUIPMENT

How Delta Speeds the Work

Mechanics at on-line stations help carry maintenance burden; it’s good for morale as well as costs.

By George L. Christian6 min

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Headlines News

Aircraft Industry Steps Up Subcontracting

Manufacturers wary of over-expansion in face of higher taxes, uncertain future.

By William Kroger4 min

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EDITORIAL

Security Break? a Case History

Newsweek has written what we hope is the last chapter in the story of “Scoop No. 1211-J.” This national news magazine with more than 800,000 circulation has told this last chapter accurately. It is not often that we can devote so much space to the background on any one story in AVIATION WEEK.

By Robert H. Wood4 min

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Laminates

Fiberglas—plastic parts have many ballistic and dielectric uses.

By Robert Temple4 min

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SIDELIGHTS

Sidelights

Ohio’s Sen. Bricker will soon introduce a bill that would transfer CAB’s economic regulatory functions to Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee. His staff is now drafting a report on domestic transportation, based on hearings held last year by a Senate subcommittee....
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Headlines News

Allison J-35: New No. 1 Engine

Latest model, A-23, gets 10,000-lb. thrust with revised compressor and turbine, and novel combustion system.

By Alexander McSurely4 min

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STRICTLY PERSONAL

Strictly Personal

TIME FOR BUNDLING—The New Yorker Magazine quotes this from the Philadelphia Inquirer: “The Air Force plane, headed here from Little Rock, Ark., was making an instrument approach in a heavy overcoat when the pilot radioed from over Millville that he had engine trouble.”

By R. H. W.4 min

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