July 16, 1951

July 16, 1951

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Beech Shows Armed T-34 Trainer

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Truce May Slow, But Not Halt Production

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Buying Change

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Beech Shows Armed T-34 Trainer

Prelude to a new evaluation of the Beech T-34 and Temco T-35 against North American’s World War II T-6 began in Washington last week with a two-pronged demonstration by the Beech Aircraft Co., to sell light plane training economy of the T-34 to USAF and potentialities of the plane as a “cub-killer” to the Army.
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Truce May Slow, But Not Halt Production

Prospects of a truce in the Korean war last week stirred Defense Department officials to quick action to ward off a threatened cut in military appropriations. Government and industry air officials had no worries about any immediate cutbacks in production; that isn’t in the cards.
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Buying Change

New procurement rule lets small firms bid on negotiated contracts.
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Douglas Skyrocket—highest and Fastest

The supersonic region has been further explored by the record-breaking flight of the Douglas D-5 58-11 Sky-rocket June 11. Navy and Douglas Air-craft Co. have claimed the world speed and altitude records for a piloted plane as one by-product of the Skyrocket’s performance.
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Sec Lists Aviation Stock Transactions

A total of 6,872 shares of Thompson Products, Inc., common stock was purchased by officers and directors of the company, through the exercise of rights for common stock which they held, Securities and Exchange Commission’s latest survey shows.
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Ual-pilot Dispute Still in Mediation

White House and National Mediation Board continued working cautiously, but hard, last week to bring United Air Lines management and pilots together. The thorny two-year dispute broke out last month in a full fledged ten-day strike that ended with pilots returning to work only under threat of government seizure.
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Navy Names Kaman in Gas-turbine Test

Kaman Aircraft Corp., Windsor Locks, Conn., is named winner of a Navy competition for development engineering studies utilizing the gas-turbine engine as power plant for helicopters. Kaman, whose proposal was adjudged as the most comprehensive among those entered by several major helicopter companies, will conduct its research tests using the Boeing developed 502-2 gas turbine as a helicopter engine.
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Cornell Lab Steps Up Research Work

The Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Inc., Buffalo, N. Y., reports that in the next 12 months it expects to double its pre-Korean outbreak business. Dr. Theodore P. Wright, president of the Buffalo laboratory, and vice president of research at Cornell University, said the Korean conflict and national mobilization effort lifted the annual volume of business completed in the fiscal year ended June 30 to $4.5 million.
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Four Awards End Basic Pilot Program

Recent awards of four additional civilian flight school contracts by USAF for basic pilot training complete the present program of nine school contracts, but unsuccessful bids will be kept on file at AMC for future reference, in event of additional expansion.
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Industry Views, Approves Optical Tooling

Demonstration of Republic method results in broad acceptance of principle, but differences on details.

By Thomas M. Self12 min

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