November 12, 1951

November 12, 1951

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Copter Firms Reveal Commercial Plans

By Alexander McSurely6 min

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Planes on Loan

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How Many Civil Non-carrier Craft?

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Copter Firms Reveal Commercial Plans

Military production now is taking all facilities and materials, so immediate civil output not in cards. But manufacturers, heartened by utility proved on battlefield, are getting future civil programs ready. Right now, Los Angeles Airways will be the guinea pig on developing copter passenger transport.

By Alexander McSurely6 min

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Planes on Loan

AF, Navy come to aid of suppliers with 344 craft for use in public interest. Airlines also may borrow units for cargo purposes under leasing policies.
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How Many Civil Non-carrier Craft?

DPA Schedule C-4 sets quotas: 3,375 this year and 3,644 in 1953; but program is subject to revision.
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Civil Non-carrier Aircraft Quotas—c-4 Program

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Steel Slash Kills Building Plans

U. S. civil and joint military-civil airports and maintenance bases are being forced to make radical changes in building plans for hangars, maintenance shops, airport towers and terminal buildings. Reason is that Defense Production Administration has slashed structural steel allotments claimed by Civil Aeronautics Administration for the fourth quarter of this year and is expected to continue cutting them back.
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Extra Power-on Aid to Hovering Copter

San Jose, Costa Rica—An interesting operational trick-of-the-trade for helicopter operation and one that meant throwing the book out the window was evolved by the crew of a USAF Air Rescue Sikorsky H-5E (S-51) assigned to help combat a yellow fever epidemic which hit this island recently.
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Northrop Doubles 1950 Gross Income

After showing a loss for several years, Northrop Aircraft staged a comeback into black ink for fiscal year ended July 31, showing a net profit of $3,276,052.94, after taxes, on gross income of $89,947,629.17, more than doubling fiscal year 1950 totals of $43,911,304.29.
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How Ge Shares Af Jet Engine Dollars

Sixty cents of every dollar General Electric received from the USAF for jet engines during the past year went to its 4,070 suppliers for components, materials and services. The suppliers are located in 41 states and the District of Columbia.
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How Effective Is Small Business Aid?

Dayton—A special committee of industrialists made Wright-Patterson AFB the first stop on a tour to determine effectiveness of the program to aid small business firms—those employing fewer than 500 persons. The group was appointed in one of the final acts of John A. McCone, former Undersecretary for Air, and was accompanied to Dayton by Kennard Weddel, chief of the Office of Small Business, Deputy Chief of Staff, Materiel.
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Aia Looks to Future Use of Titanium

Producers ask AMC to undertake 19 projects. And know-how for use of ‘wonder metal’ is one.

By Alexander McSurely8 min

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