January 21, 1952

January 21, 1952

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Defense Heads Set Back Plane Production

By AVIATION WEEK’S7 min

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Gratuities Trials Open at Dayton

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Industry Services Talk Patent Rights

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Headline News

Defense Heads Set Back Plane Production

Aircraft manufacturing program to take an extra year, although eventual totals will be the same. B-47, F-89, C-119 and trainer programs affected heavily through new limits on monthly output. Schedule pushback announced by Pentagon blamed on low powerplant production; engine makers hit.

By AVIATION WEEK’S7 min

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Gratuities Trials Open at Dayton

Dayton—The first “gratuities” trial involving indictments for alleged Air Force procurement irregularities began in Federal Court here with the government seeking to show that there had been a pattern of “gifts-then-contracts.” Defendant Lawrence A. Razete, official of Cincinnati Electronics, Inc., and Ravtronics Laboratories, Inc., both of Cincinnati, was indicted on four counts.
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Industry Services Talk Patent Rights

Aviation manufacturers once again are trying to pin the Defense Department down to consistent recognition of proprietary rights in development and procurement contracts. For the first time in more than ten years, representatives of industry and the services met last week to study the present policy on rights of inventors, whether companies or individuals, in developments financed wholly or partly with government funds.
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Headline News

Operators Ask New Laws for Copters

Plans to draft standard legislation for presentation to city and county governments in an attempt to free helicopters from local restrictions designed for fixed-wing aircraft were agreed on at the first annual meeting of the Helicopter Assn.
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EQUIPMENT

Air Research Extends Gas Turbine Field

Use for auxiliary power in aircraft is rising. Sizeable Navy orders point up the trend.

By George L. Christian10 min

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Caa Crash Studies Give New Safety Data

Fire is known to be a major killer in crashes. Now tests show how to cut down this fire danger.
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AIR TRANSPORT

Cab-airline Clash Brews on Coach Fares

Board wants less than 4⅛ cents per mile day rate and 4 cents or less for night coaches. But companies operating non-competitive routes may oppose any reduction in established fares.

By F. Lee Moore6 min

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Men Around Churchill Push Air Power

London—“It is perfectly clear,” Winston Churchill said in the defense debate last December, “that in the sphere of material needs, the claims of the Royal Air Force must have first and special emphasis and priority.” These were comforting words to Britain’s eager but ill-supplied aircraft manufacturers.

By Nat McKitterick5 min

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FINANCIAL

Backlogs No Guarantee of Profits

Stocks of many leading aircraft manufacturers were down in 1951, despite huge military expenditures. Inflated expectations collapsed as volume production and deliveries failed to materialize.

By Selig Altschul4 min

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Air Transpoarts

More Flight Aids

Better code, more voice identifiers are planned. But expenses involved will delay program.
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