July 30, 1951

July 30, 1951

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Usaf Buys Big-wing Packet

By Ben S. Lee6 min

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Legal Maneuvers Mark Alpa Week

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Cab Shifts on Miami Interchange

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Usaf Buys Big-wing Packet

Fairchild C-119H seen as quick answer to Army need; will move 22,000-lb. cargo into front-line bases.

By Ben S. Lee6 min

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Legal Maneuvers Mark Alpa Week

Operations now "normal,’ new leadership says, but receivership is threatened if factions do not agree.
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Cab Shifts on Miami Interchange

Board rescinds National-Panagra pact, but puts Braniff in the act; Grace sells NAL holdings.
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New Big Boy

Convair YB-60, 8-jet, sweptwing B-36 version to fly in November.
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Fletcher Shows Armed Lightplane

Newest in a series of lightplane competitors which are currently being demonstrated to the Army as potential rocket-launching platforms and low-level attackers against ground troops, is the one-place Fletcher Model FD25 Defender, which has already been demonstrated to the Marines and Ground Forces.
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Headline News

Damage Slight in Two Connie Mishaps

Two Lockheed Constellations suffered mishaps recently. Yet only one sustained any damage and none of the total of 95 passengers or 14 crew members was injured. The first, on July 17, was a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines’ plane which aborted a takeoff from New York International Airport for Amsterdam.
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Headline News

Civil Plane Rate of 3,500 Asked

Air Coordinating Committee last week agreed to recommend priorities authorizations for a minimum level of 3,500 industrial, agricultural and executive airplanes a year. The committee will back the program in requests to Defense Production Administration and National Production Authority for materials schedules to assure this level of production.
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AIR TRANSPORT

We Can Catch British Jets, Group Says

But time is running out if we are to overcome English headstart in transports, returned specialists warn.

By Alexander McSurely8 min

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AVIONICS

Avionic Advances Revealed By Honeywell

Five devices now being built or developed indicate progress.

By David A. Anderton8 min

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Washington Roundup

Air Power Outlook It’s wait and see on the military build-up for the next few months. Joint Chiefs of Staff are scheduled to present a “reappraised” program to Congress in September or October. House Appropriations Committee has marked the conferences down on its agenda.

By Katherine Johnsen5 min

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