July 21, 1952

July 21, 1952

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U.s. Funds Will Aid Europe’s Air Industry

By Nat McKitterick4 min

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Strong Carrier Force Is Urged

By Ben S. Lee4 min

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Committee Charges Manpower Waste

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U.s. Funds Will Aid Europe’s Air Industry

Britain to get big boost from off-shore buying. Italy, Holland also will build planes for NATO.

By Nat McKitterick4 min

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Strong Carrier Force Is Urged

Floberg says mobile bases provide element of surprise and cites Navy Air successes during World War II.

By Ben S. Lee4 min

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Committee Charges Manpower Waste

Senate Armed Services Preparedness Committee lashed out at the Air Force and other military services for exorbitant waste of manpower and inefficiency in a report last week on utilization of manpower by the armed services. The committee declared that during the four years preceding the outbreak of hostilities in Korea, the nation had spent approximately $5 billion a year on military personnel costs, 40% of the defense budget.
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Dutch Entry

Fairchild gets license to build Fokker S. 14. And it meets most USAF specs for Trainer X.
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Standard Defense Catalog Is Pushed

A new government agency last week was getting squared away to tackle a job that may drastically change present industry-Air Force-Navy procedures for drafting aeronautical standards. And it may also change the Air Force’s current method of keeping track of its supplies.
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Thermals Blamed in Banshee Crash

Navy officials analyzing the recent crash of a Navy F2H-2 Banshee at Inyokern, Calif., are expected to find that it was caused by a combination of gust and extreme “G” load during pullout from a dive too near the ground. The plane came apart in the air.
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Steel Shortage May Slow Plane Output

The steel alloys shortage due to the steel strike will cut dangerously into production and deliveries of individual airframe and engine components about mid-August, the Aircraft Industries Assn, believes. Substitution of some sizes and shapes already has been necessary; but production is not slowed noticeably yet, it is merely made more cumbersome by the need to machine odd sizes to specifications.
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Suppliers to Do Most AMC Maintenance

Dayton, O.—New policies on Air Force maintenance operations have resulted in establishment of a new Air Materiel Command directorate, shuffling of several general officers into new jobs at new locations. Lt. Gen. Edwin W. Rawlings, AMC commanding general, said that much of the future maintenance work—airframes, engines and major electronic assemblies—will be done in plants of the original supplier, rather than at specialized depots scattered around the country as in the past.
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Subsidies Estimated at $44.5 Million

Civil Aeronautics Board has announced the subsidy rate it believes each U.S. international and territorial airline is getting out of its mail pay. The rate amounts to an estimated $44.5 million out of this year’s expected total mail pay of $63 million.
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Mats New Evacuation Transport

Delivery of the first in a fleet of Convair C-131 military air evacuation transports to Military Air Transport Service is scheduled early next year. The twin-engine pressurized plane will carry 27 litter patients or 40 ambulatory cases and will be placed in operation on continental medical evacuation air routes in the U. S. It is a special version of the commercial Convair 240, with a cruising speed of 285 mph. and range of more than 1,000 mi. at 16,000 ft.
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