March 24, 1952

March 24, 1952

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Fare Fight

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UAC Reports

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Curtiss-Wright Faces a Busy Year

By William Kroger

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Fare Fight

Trunks ask higher rate to insure fair return. But CAB says return is pretty fair now.
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UAC Reports

Sales of $417,211,980 for the year ending Dec. 31, 1951 yielded net income of $14,266,867 after taxes totaling SI7,960,738, United Aircraft Corp. reported last week. For the preceding year, sales were $269.255.388, taxes S15.269,924.
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Curtiss-Wright Faces a Busy Year

Company appears ready to open large-scale production attack on $1,025-million backlog of orders.

By William Kroger

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NYA Wins

Board upholds award of helicopter certificate.Now N. Y. Airways can start—when it gets craft.
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New Indictments in AF Irregularities

Dayton—Two men named in indictments charging bribery and conspiracy in connection with Air Force procurements will be arraigned in the U. S. district court here Mar. 28. Defendants are: • Robert G. Hollifield, Sr., former unit chief in the Aero Medical Laboratory of the Wright Air Development Center, Wright-Patterson AFB.
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New Intercept

NAA building system for own USAF, Navy planes. First time one company does whole job.
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New Reports Underline Production Crisis

The stretchout of military aircraft production was being presented to the Defense Department last week in a way that indicated a gathering crisis. Secretary Robert Lovett in his semiannual report found the U. S. stronger and the defense production buildup progressing.
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Hot-Rod Jets

Just around the corner for the fasttravelling U. S. business executive is a speedy jet-powered executive plane. Tomorrow he will be able to hot-rod around the country at 400 mph. in a pressurized jet executive plane, R. M. Harman, Beech Aircraft’s chief design engineer, is forecasting.
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ATA Pushes Study Of Airborne Radar

The first joint airline action toward possible fleet-wide use of airborne radar to warn of extreme turbulence and terrain obstacles has been launched bv the Air Transport Assn., an American Airlines official has told AVIATION WEEK. ATA, according to M. G. Beard, chief engineer for AA, has notified radar manufacturers of current airline interest in such a device and is setting up a joint airline/radar industry meeting to discuss what may become a multimillion dollar program.
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Secret Weapon

Rio de Janeiro—Add to the list of anti-aircraft weapons the rawhide lariat of southern Brazil. Production costs arc small and it does the trick. A gaucho herdsman in Brazil’s southermost state of Rio Grande do Sul has given a successful demonstration. Annoyed by a lowstunting two-place trainer from a nearby aero club, he tossed his loop at the aircraft as it dived on him. The rawhide cord snagged the propeller, which in a few seconds tore off, forcing the plane to a dead stick landing in a nearby pasture.
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