July 7, 1952

July 7, 1952

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F-94C Nearly All-Automatic Interceptor

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Heavy Press Plan Looks to Europe

By Alexander McSurely

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10,000-lb.-Thrust British Jet Engine

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Headline News

F-94C Nearly All-Automatic Interceptor

New warplane largely flown by avionic aids. Pilot’s principal job is to get plane in the air.
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Headline News

Heavy Press Plan Looks to Europe

Dayton—Lack of interest by qualified U. S. iron and steel foundry industry people in bids to build giant castings for USAF’s heavy forge and extrusion press program may mean that most of the remaining castings orders will be placed in Europe, observers have forecast (See USAF Puts Money on ‘Big Squeeze,’ p. 38).

By Alexander McSurely

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10,000-lb.-Thrust British Jet Engine

Bristol’s twin-spool-compressor engine—the Olympus—has emerged as Britain’s first turbojet in the 10,000-lb.plus-thrust category. The company claims the powerplant is the world’s most powerful and most economical jet at this stage of development.
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Robot Ticket Clerk Readies AA for Jets

A robot, the Magnetron Reservisor, has been in control of ticket sales inventory at American Airlines in New York for several weeks now. While the Reservisor (or its “robot representatives,” the push-button boxes soon to appear on ticket sales counters) has not been in evidence to the public, it has been doing a full-fledged job backstage at AA’s vast ticket sales and reservations control center at LaGuardia Field.
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EAL Action Spoils ATA Plans

Just as the Air Transport Assn. is preparing one of its first new cooperative efforts in years—a joint airlines publicity program—an extraordinary incident has threatened to spoil the cooperation needed to accomplish it. Eastern Air Lines president E. V. Rickenbacker has announced he will withdraw Eastern from the association.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Hand Labor Builds Breguet Deux-Ponts

Big passenger-cargo transport will carry 48 on top deck, 60 below or can be used as an all-cargo carrier.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Flowrator Handles Jet Fuel Safely

An explosion-proof, remote-indicating fuel Flowrator—which shows an average deviation of less than 0.2%— has been developed by Fischer & Porter Co., Hatboro, Pa. Its stainless steel construction, together with its explosion-proof and remote-reading features, makes it capable of handling more corrosive and chemically active fuels than gasoline and the JP series.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Recon Laboratory To Go Up at Rome

An aerial reconnaissance laboratory is to be built at the USAF’s Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss AFB, N. Y., at a cost of $2.3 million. In making the announcement of the new facility, the Air Research and Development Command estimated that construction would begin in about six months, that the lab would be completed a year from that date, and that another two years later the staff would be at strength of 400 military and civilian personnel.
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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

British Missile Program Underway

Britain’s large and unpublicized guided missile program is beginning to pay off. Production or prototype missiles are being built with a super-priority rating by at least six major aircraft or engine manufacturers. Target drones, built in Australia and powered by British Armstrong Siddeley Adder turbojets, have been flown successfully.
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THRUST & DRAG

THRUST & DRAG

There’s no such thing as an ideal rocket fuel—but the Research division of New York University’s College of Engineering is trying to find the next best propellant. Under a research project sponsored jointly by the Office of Naval Research and the Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics, NYU’s rocket fuels group is synthesizing organic propellants.

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