April 23, 1951

April 23, 1951

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Relief Speeded for Material-short Plants

By Alexander McSurely7 min

Headline News

Salaries Listed of Aviation Executives

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Boeing Delivers Tb-50d Trainer

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Headline News

Relief Speeded for Material-short Plants

Dayton—How much aluminum, copper and steel will U. S. air power need? And how much will it get? Answers to these two questions aren’t easy. But the job of piecing the answers together has been started here at Wright-Patterson AFB, by a monthold three-man board representing Air Force, Navy and Army, and a staff of military civilian industry planners.

By Alexander McSurely7 min

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Salaries Listed of Aviation Executives

Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Robert E. Gross, president, $94,815, plus pension payment of $17,321 ($75,200, plus pension payment of $11,819); C. A. Barker, Jr., vice president, $70,762, plus pension payment of $15,635 ($60,350, plus pension payment of $12,292); Cyril Chappellet, vice president, $52,706, plus pension payment of $5085 ($45,300, plus pension payment of $4050); Courtlandt S. Gross, vice president, $70,376, plus pension payment of $7252 ($60,350, plus pension payment of $5773);Hall S. Hibbard, vice president, $52,356, plus pension payment of $5695 ($45,000, plus pension payment of $4508);Carl B. Squier, vice president, $52,356 plus pension payment of $12,243 ($45,000, plus pension payment of $9683).
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Boeing Delivers Tb-50d Trainer

Modified production B-50D is flying classroom for navigator, bombardier, radar operator training.
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Headline News

National Air Races Planned for 1951

The National Air Races, the nation’s annual aviation classic, will be resumed this year but in a new midwestern location, AVIATION WEEK has learned. The races were canceled last year after an economy edict by former Defense Secretary Louis Johnson forbade military participation.
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Experimental Cf-100 Crashes on Test Hop

A. V. Roe Canada Ltd.’s two-place CF-100 Canuck twin-jet fighter that recently crashed on an endurance flight near Komoka, Ont., killing RCAF flight-lieutenant Bruce Warren and engineer Robert Ostrander, was the second experimental model powered by Rolls-Royce Avons.
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Two New Copters Offered Military

Two more West Coast hopeful helicopter manufacturers have announced their plans for small rotary-wing craft, hard on the heels of Hiller’s Hornet and McCulloch’s MC-4 (AVIATION WEEK Feb. 19, p. 25; Mar. 26, p. 18). They are American Helicopter Co., Manhattan Beach, Calif., and RotorCraft Corp., Glendale.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Convair’s Turboprop Flight Experience

Operations with Allison 501 engines in XP5Y-1 and Turboliner summarized for benefit of other users.
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EQUIPMENT

Guide to Equipment Overhaul Times

Equipment is wresting control of aircraft from man. It is essential to successful flight. And it is big business. Maintenance and overhaul of that equipment is one of the airlines’ major concerns. Roughly 20 percent of all their expenses are in that category.
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AIR TRANSPORT

Break in Andb Overcast Possible

Hope held for reconsideration of projects list slash which may delay all-weather program two years.

By F. Lee Moore5 min

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AVIONICS

High-purity Polarization for Vor

Quality of signals from new cylindrical transmitting antenna eliminates aircraft attitude error.
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