October 22, 1951

October 22, 1951

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AF Reveals Shifts in Aircraft Schedules

By Ben S. Lee9 min

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NACA Shows Cooler Blades for Hot Jets

By Alexander McSurely4 min

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Two Strikes End

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Headline News

AF Reveals Shifts in Aircraft Schedules

New USAF aircraft production schedules involving major shifts at two plants and less drastic changes at others are to be spelled out to the heads of aircraft companies within ten days when they are called to Washington to get their revised assignments.

By Ben S. Lee9 min

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NACA Shows Cooler Blades for Hot Jets

Cleveland—New methods of cooling aircraft turbine blades and new treatments of turbine blade materials developed through NACA research are available here as answers to problems set up by the materials shortages facing the U. S. aircraft engine industry.

By Alexander McSurely4 min

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Two Strikes End

Executive board of United Auto Workers-CIO in special session at Washington last week authorized striking UAW locals at Douglas Aircraft Co. and Wright Aeronautical Corp. plants to call off their strikes, in response to President Truman’s appeal, relayed by Wage Stabilization Board.
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Box Score on Aircraft Materials and Tools

Tight supplies of aircraft metals and tools have been a major cause of the delayed production of fighters and bombers vital to national defense. The situation in some cases will improve—recent rains have eased the Pacific Northwest power shortage which had hit aluminum production.
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It’s Definite Now: CAA Takes a Slash

Sharp retrenchment of Civil Aeronautics Administration funds is now definite for 1952. The $155-million fiscal 1952 outlay for CAA which Congress forwarded to the White House for final action last week compares with the $214 million allotted for 1951.
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Dean Says Tactical A-Weapons Are Here

New U. S. atomic weapons can cancel out on the battlefield the numerical advantage of the enemy, Gordon Dean, Atomic Energy Commission chairman recently stated. No longer is the atomic warfare potential confined to intercontinental strategic bomber strikes at the industrial heart of an enemy country, Dean said in an address at San Francisco.
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NACA Designs for Super-Speed Missiles

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Engineering a Good Design

Under the title “The Well Tempered Aircraft,” Arthur E. Raymond, vice president-engineering, Douglas Aircraft Co., delivered the 39th Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture before the Royal Aeronautical Society in London Sept. 10. Because it is the most thorough approach to the problems of constructing today’s aircraft made by a recognized authority in recent months, AVIATION WEEK is publishing the major portion of Mr. Raymond’s paper in installments, including copies of the original drawings.
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EQUIPMENT

Card-Index Overhaul Cuts Braniff Cost

Dallas—A recently instituted “Work Schedule” program which sets up in advance the exact pattern, tools and parts to overhaul an airplane, including instruction cards for the mechanics, is saving Braniff International Airways countless thousands of manhours maintaining its DC-3s and DC-4s.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Space Flight Talk Gets Down-to-Earth

The world’s civilian scientists are taking the theory of space travel and applying it to schemes that seem capable of realization relatively soon—perhaps in the next 10 years. This trend from fancy to fact is now defining astronautical aims within closer limits—near-to-earth satellite orbits for a beginning, and basically practical design thinking to promote early accomplishment.
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