January 7, 1952

January 7, 1952

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Single Agency to Handle Plane Needs

By Alexander McSurely5 min

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How We Looked to Sbac Tourists

By Nat McKitterick4 min

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No Hoarding

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Single Agency to Handle Plane Needs

B-products bottlenecks and inadequate priorities for military components have plagued industry. So new plan will place all aircraft requirements, both service and civil, under one head: APRA. Combined materials setup should be operating in time to schedule flow of third-quarter 1952 supplies.

By Alexander McSurely5 min

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How We Looked to Sbac Tourists

British visitors were impressed by what they saw, but wonder how they can apply it to their own problems.

By Nat McKitterick4 min

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No Hoarding

Industry gets clean bill on aluminum inventories. Primes report difficulty in meeting suppliers’ needs.
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Rift in Secrecy Veil Bares F-94c

Photographs of one of the Air Force’s still-classified aircraft, Lockheed’s F-94C, which three times were denied to AVIATION WEEK by the manufacturer on the grounds that the Air Force had not authorized their release, have appeared in a British publication in a familiar example of holes in Air Force’s security curtain. (See editorial “The Lid Is Still On,” p. 78.
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Piper Shows New Agricultural Plane

Piper Aircraft Corp., which for several years has been intensively developing the light agricultural airplane, has come up with the new PA-18-A, said to be capable of spraying up to 220 acres in 45 minutes with a single load of chemicals. This feat has been made possible by considerable interior redesign and new Piper equipment which nearly doubles the spray/dust capacity of previous models.
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Second C-46 Crash Spurs Cab Study

While CAB field men investigated the second nonsked Curtiss C-46 fatal crash in two weeks, civil aeronautics authorities in Washington studied the whole C-46 picture, including weight limitations. In the second accident, a Continental Charters’ Commando with 40 aboard crashed near Little Valley, N. Y., Dec. 29 killing 26 en route from Pittsburgh to Buffalo.
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Airline Revenues Top $1 Billion in 1951

The U.S. airline industry took in over a billion dollars revenue in 1951, reports Air Transport Assn, research director Dr. Lewis C. Sorrell. This was 21% over 1950—the previous record year. Passenger business accounted for about 80% of all U. S. airline operating revenues of $1,043,334,812.
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Airline Parts Plan Set Up

Airlines now have an emergency procedure set up by the CAA Office of Aviation Defense Requirements, so that no airliner will be grounded for lack of spare parts so long as those parts are available from military stocks or contractors. The plan was announced by Air Force Undersecretary R. L. Gilpatric and CAA Administrator C. F. Horne.
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White House Action Averts Boeing Strike

Prompt White House intervention has averted a strike scheduled to have started Jan. 2 at Boeing Airplane Co., Wichita plant for 16,000 workers involved in the high-priority B-47 six-jet bomber’s production. Acting Dec. 28, President Truman issued requests to both the company and the union for referral of the negotiations on an International Association of Machinists contract, to the Wage Stabilization Board.
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Nonsked Airline Suspended By Cab

The Civil Aeronautics Board has suspended operation by New England Air Express, a nonscheduled airline, “until the carrier shows that the rights of the public will be protected in its operations.” The Board points out that the president of the line, Richard Olivere himself admits enough of the earlier charges by CAB against his operation to justify immediate suspension of his letter of registration by CAB.
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