July 9, 1951

July 9, 1951

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Headline News

Strike Is Ended—but the Dispute Goes On

Headline News

Af Overhaul

Headline News

French Show: Many Designs, Few Planes

By Ross Hazeltine5 min

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Headline News

Strike Is Ended—but the Dispute Goes On

UAL pilots go back to work under truce, and talks resume on flight time issue.
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Headline News

Af Overhaul

Effect on policy seen following retirements and promotions.
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Headline News

French Show: Many Designs, Few Planes

Good combat craft in prototype form, but lack of funds likely to prevent production of anything but transports.

By Ross Hazeltine5 min

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Headline News

Gen. O’donnell Denies Af Factional Fight

Fifteenth Air Force’s Commanding Gen. Emmett O’Donnell wrote off reports of a growing “schism” between tactical and strategic air factions in the Air Force as completely without basis in his testimony before the Joint Senate Foreign Relations-Armed Service Committee winding up its investigation of the dismissal of Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur.
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Headline News

Lockheed Wins

Design for turboprop freighter picked by AF in five-company contest.
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Headline News

Ge Sets Production on New Jet Engine

General Electric Co. will push output of its J-47-23 all-weather jet engine for one or more models of Boeing’s B-47 Stratojet under a large-scale production program. Details of the -23 jet, which was announced last winter, were revealed in AVIATION WEEK, Dec. 4.
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Aeronautical Engineering

Naca Reports

Two-Dimensional Subsonic Compressible Flows Past Arbitrary Bodies by the Variational Method (TN 2326)— by Chi-Teh Wang, New York University. Two-dimensional compressible flow can only be described by a complex nonlinear differential equation.
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EQUIPMENT

Link Thrives on Simulator Boom

Growing military interest in synthetic trainers spurs deeper analysis of pilot reactions in flight.

By George L. Christian8 min

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PRODUCTION

Improved Welding Aids Fabrication

Sciaky resistance welders with current decay control now produce nearly flawless welded joints.
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AIR TRANSPORT

New Formula for Mail Pay Shaping Up

Despite CAB objection, compensatory rate bill likely to pass.

By Katherine Johnsen6 min

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