March 26, 1951

March 26, 1951

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Headline News

Dispute Over Funds Split Delays Build-up

By Katherine Johnsen6 min

Headline News

Cab Powers

Headline News

Fairey’s Delta Research F.d.1 Makes First Flight

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Headline News

Dispute Over Funds Split Delays Build-up

$70-billion ceiling set for military funds but no decision on how to divide them.

By Katherine Johnsen6 min

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Headline News

Cab Powers

Rentzel asks Senate unit for more authority over the airline industry.
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Headline News

Fairey’s Delta Research F.d.1 Makes First Flight

The Fairey Delta One, third member of Britain’s triangular aircraft research trinity, made its first flight March 12 at Boscombe Down with Group Capt. R. G. Slade as pilot. F.D.l is an airplane of tiny proportions; its wingspan is a diminutive 19 ft. 6½ in., and overall length is only 26 ft. 3 in. Power comes from a single Rolls-Royce Derwent turbojet and tricycle landing gear is fitted.
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Headline News

Consolidated Vultee’s Big Eight-jet Version of the B-36 Intercontinental Bomber

This is a staff impression of Consolidated Vultee’s sweptwing all-jet-engined version of the B-36. Under development contract, two are to be built at Convair-Fort Worth. One of the huge planes now under construction will probably fly late this year.
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EDITORIAL

A Navy Answer on ‘saucers’

To be sure of publicizing “the other side” of a controversial question, we print in full on this page a letter from the Chief of Naval Research commenting on our recent editorial, “Saucers, Secrecy & Security.” We have numbered the paragraphs of his letter to tie in our own comments below.

By Robert H. Wood5 min

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PRODUCTION

Wac Sets Subcontracting Pattern

Wright ‘talent scouts’ tour the field to find suppliers, setting up on-the-spot displays of needed parts.

By Erwin J. Bulban5 min

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FINANCIAL

Douglas, Uac Declare Stock Splits

In period of rising earnings, dividend shares help broaden ownership base and investment interest.

By Selig Altschul5 min

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Camera Sees Like Moving Eye

Scanning prism sweeps wide field of view into the fixed lens and onto film strip a mile long.
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New Monitor

Gilfillan’s automatic control device should speed traffic.
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Sidelights

House Appropriations Committee’s proposal to give the Postmaster General authority to stop over-costly domestic mail service and ship mail by “more economic means” will probably be turned down by the Senate, even if it passes the House.
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