August 13, 1951

August 13, 1951

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Headline News

House Gets $ 15-billion Air Power Budget

By Ben S. Lee9 min

Headline News

Overseas Air Coach Parley Asked

Headline News

Military Jets to Vie in National Air Races

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Headline News

House Gets $ 15-billion Air Power Budget

Slash in President’s fund request is not likely to affect military aviation.

By Ben S. Lee9 min

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Headline News

Overseas Air Coach Parley Asked

The Civil Aeronautics Board has asked Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines to call a special meeting of North Atlantic carriers of the International Air Transport Assn, to rewrite the air coach fare resolution omitting any limit on number of coach trips and fixing seating density at the “average maximum operating capacity” of each type plane.
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Headline News

Military Jets to Vie in National Air Races

An attempt to crack the world speed record for a closed course will be made by a North American F-86E Sabre jet over a 100-kilometer course as the climax of the two-day National Air Races at Detroit Aug. 19. Great Britain now holds the record. Ability of the Sabre to turn tightly on the closed course at Detroit’s Wayne County Airport will probably decide whether the USAF pilot flying the plane can better the 604.87 mph. record which John Derry, flying a de Havilland 108 jet plane set Apr. 12, 1948.
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Headline News

Government Aid Asked for Copters

Government encouragement of further helicopter development by five agencies: the Department of Defense, Post Office Department, CAA, CAB, and National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, is called for in a report approved by the Air Coordinating Committee on the future of helicopters.
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Headline News

Super Connie Orders Climb to 143

Air France has ordered 10 Lockheed Super Constellation 1049Cs with Wright 3350 compound engines, for $15 million. This, plus the recent order for three Super Connies by Pakistan International hikes Lockheed’s commercial backlog of Supers to 62, priced at $96,041,000.
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Headline News

New McDonnell F3h in First Test Flight

A new needle-nosed, sweptwing Navy McDonnell jet fighter rolled down the runway at Lambert St. Louis Airport last week and climbed steadily into the air to begin its first flight—of 25 minutes duration. Chief Test Pilot Bob Edholm, who has done much of the flight test work on other high-speed McDonnell jets was at the controls.
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Headline News

Cab Looks Into Mwa Stock Buy

A deal for Purdue University to buy control of Mid-West Airlines for $64,000 is up for Civil Aeronautics Board hearings, consolidated with the MidWest certificate renewal case. Purdue and Mid-West signed a contract under which Purdue would buy MWA’s secured convertible 6% notes Series A for $64,000.
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AIR TRANSPORT

Curtain Drops on One-man Show

Behncke's preoccupation with a 'home’ to give union of ‘impetuous’ pilots stability helped spark rebellion.

By William Kroger15 min

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AF Contracts

Af Contracts

The Air Force has announced contracts valued at over $16 million for the week ended July 13. The week’s list includes 61 contracts of “over $250,000.” Actual values of these contracts is not given. The complete list: Adel div., General Metals Corp., Burbank, Adel feathering pumps, Cl. 03A, 5,320 ea., $770,000.
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EQUIPMENT

Plug Fouling Remedies Discussed

European Ignition Conference studies TCP compound and other means of eliminating spark plug failures.

By Nathaniel McKitterick8 min

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