May 28, 1951

May 28, 1951

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Headline News

Poll Shows Rise in Subcontracts

By William Kroger7 min

Headline News

Clinic Charts New Business Path

Headline News

Naca Tunnels Bare Secrets of Transonic

By Alexander McSurely5 min

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Headline News

Poll Shows Rise in Subcontracts

Prime manufacturers report more than $500 million to be spent this year and rate nears wartime mark.

By William Kroger7 min

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Headline News

Clinic Charts New Business Path

First joint procurement show gives a pattern, but also points a lesson for exhibitors, subcontractors.
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Headline News

Naca Tunnels Bare Secrets of Transonic

New design of test sections for first time permits lab probing of Mach .8-1.3 zone.

By Alexander McSurely5 min

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Headline News

Latest Missile Work Revealed

NACA show at Wallops Island gives glimpse of push button research on pilotless supersonic flight.
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Headline News

More Business for Small Business

USAF steps to give added work to small firms yield results : 50 percent of number of contracts.
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Headline News

One Man’s Specs for Uscg Flying Boat

A new flying boat able to lift 40 passengers from turbulent seas running up to 15 ft. high, and capable of setting down on the water without difficulty at night is the kind of plane the U.S. Coast Guard would like to have soon for its long-range overwater search and rescue missions, Capt. D. B. MacDiarmid of the Coast Guard station at San Diego, Calif., told members of the Society of Automotive Engineers during their recent meeting in New York City.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Nuclear Reactor: Its Desien

In February of this year came the announcement that aircraft propulsion by nuclear energy theoretically was feasible. That statement presented the aircraft industry with a new world full of possibilities and problems. Since February, AVIATION WEEK has been gathering material to acquaint you with this new source of power.

By David A. Anderton14 min

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AIR TRANSPORT

New Yardstick Measures Airways Needs

CAA planning group works out economic criteria for development of terminal and navigation facilities.

By F. Lee Moore5 min

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PRODUCTION

Plane Fabrication’s Ace in Hole

German-developed mass-production technique being studied by Republic for application to Thunderjet.

By Irving Stone5 min

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SIDELIGHTS

Sidelights

USAF announces it has ordered into production a new single-seat fighter-bomber version of the Lockheed F-94, the F-94D, similar to the F-94C interceptor. It uses the P&W J-48, rated at 6,250-lb. thrust without afterburner. This confirms AVIATION WEEK’S May 7 story that such a plane had been proposed by Lockheed to the AF, to carry extra fuel tanks in the space occupied by the radar operator in the F-94C . . .
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