April 16, 1951

April 16, 1951

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Headline News

What Aviation Pays Executives

Headline News

Army Plane Purchases to Grow

Headline News

Props Vs. Jets: Some More Navy Views

By Alpheus W. Jessup5 min

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Headline News

What Aviation Pays Executives

New listing of airline officers salaries and stock holdings filed.
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Headline News

Army Plane Purchases to Grow

More dollars flow to aircraft industry as Army need for 'air transportability’ continues to increase.
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Headline News

Props Vs. Jets: Some More Navy Views

The use of jets for close air support was the subject of a letter exchange in AVIATION WEEK Jan. 29 between a Navy commander and Alpheus W. Jessup, McGraw-Hill World News correspondent in the Far East. The commander was not too happy with the jets as a close-support weapon. This article gives some other Navy views.

By Alpheus W. Jessup5 min

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Af Pushes Buildup of B-47 Jet Bomber

Dayton—The high-speed Boeing B-47 jet bomber rapidly emerging as a very important Strategic Air Command striking weapon of the immediate future, is undergoing an Air Force buildup comparable only to the high priority B-29 program of World War II.

By Alexander McSurely3 min

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Headline News

Non-sked Head Blast at Airlines

Verbal fireworks were set off at a recent Senate Interstate Commerce Committee session by Amos Heacock, Air Coach Transport Assn, president. Heacock appeared in opposition to confirmation of the nominations of Delos Rentzel as Undersecretary of Commerce for Transportation and Donald Nyrop as Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board.
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Headline News

Westinghouse Y-ducted J-40

These first pictures of the Westinghouse J-40-WE-6, one of the recently announced turbojets in the high-thrust bracket, show front end (left photo) and side features of the engine. Gearbox is disposed between twin elliptical air intakes, with what appear to be fuel pumps and fuel regulator installed below and forward.
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EQUIPMENT

Mechanized Control Saves Money

UAL’s change-over from manual inventory recording puts more items on the shelf, but cuts investment.
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Aeronautical Engineering

Single Curve Simplifies Control

New system, adaptable to all aircraft, uses mechanical computer based on theoretical calculations.
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PRODUCTION ENGINEERING

Wright Speeds Sapphire to Production

New Detroit engineering-manufacturing office is key to get-ready phase.

By Irving Stone5 min

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FINANCIAL

’50 Reports Not What They Seem

Nature of aircraft industry works against final annual accounting, with adjustments spread out over years.

By Selig Altschul4 min

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