August 27, 1951

August 27, 1951

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Races Prove Crowd-appeal of Air Power

By Ben S. Lee6 min

Headline News

Battle Looms on C-46 Load Limits

Headline News

Four-place Helioplane Shown at Races

By Alexander McSurely5 min

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Headline News

Races Prove Crowd-appeal of Air Power

Services’ static exhibits and flight displays push attendance above 200,000 mark.

By Ben S. Lee6 min

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Headline News

Battle Looms on C-46 Load Limits

Plane can be operated safely at 48,000-lb. gross, say operators, who will fight CAB’s 43,500-lb. limit.
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Four-place Helioplane Shown at Races

Unheralded debut vies for lightplane interest with midget racers.

By Alexander McSurely5 min

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Headline News

Car Review

Changes seen likely in landing distance, spoiler requirements.
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Faster Write-offs of Planes Sought

Seven airlines have asked for Defense Production Administration certificates to permit accelerated tax amortization on over $83 million of airline equipment. But unlike the railroads, which moved a year ago, when the going was easier, the airlines have moved too late to take full, if any, advantage of the tax benefits permitted for defense expansion.
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Carrier Clears Deck with Hinged Stacks

The biggest aircraft carrier yet, the Navy’s new James V. Forrestal, will go back to the old-time carrier Ranger for the principle of folding stacks to give a greater, clear deck area. Plans for the new Forrestal call for its stacks to be hinged and fold outward as they did on the old Ranger.
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Australian Canberra Bomber ‘years Off’

Melbourne—Although tooling for Australian production of the Canberra jet bomber was supposed to have started more than a year ago, no responsible officer of the Government Aircraft Factory at Fishermen’s Bend will yet put an estimated date on completion of the first bomber.
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Nonskeds Boost ‘operation Homelift’

Nonscheduled airlines have increased their 18-plane “operation homelift,” lifting Korea veterans from the West Coast to their homes, to twice-weekly departures instead of one. Some 90,000 veterans are scheduled to arrive on the West Coast August-October for leave before stateside assignment.
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Merger Move Seen for Naa, Nac

Merger of two major national aviation organizations, National Aeronautic Assn. and National Air Council will probably take place soon. The merger movement began at NAA’s annual convention, in Detroit, which authorized a committee to negotiate with a similar NAC committee on joining forces.
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PRODUCTION ENGINEERING

Experts Tell Why Planes Cost So Much

Kindelberger explains the difference in cost between P-51 and F-86.
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