November 3, 1952

November 3, 1952

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Sabres Still Rule Skies Over Mig Alley

By R. P. (Pepper) Martin10 min

Headline News

Four Planes From Two Yf-93as

Headline News

Pilot Congress

By Alexander McSurely3 min

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Headline News

Sabres Still Rule Skies Over Mig Alley

Tokyo—One of the longest sustained air battles in history is still being fought in the narrow northwest corner of Korea, debris-strewn MiG Alley. In a sense, it is a battle between a moderate-sized Goliath and an overgrown David. The Red Goliath has superior strength and possibly a better allaround weapon, but victory has gone to his slighter, more skillful opponent.

By R. P. (Pepper) Martin10 min

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Headline News

Four Planes From Two Yf-93as

Fast jets supplement windtunnels in NACA studies on inlets for missiles and high-speed aircraft.
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Headline News

Pilot Congress

Expanding emphasis on seeking solutions to flight safety problems from the pilot’s viewpoint gets higher priority in Air Line Pilots Assn. (AFL) under its new reorganized status. Last week at Chicago, ALPA voted to establish an annual Safety Congress, in which representatives from each airline’s pilot membership and other ALPA members working on safety projects, will meet each March to set Association safety policy on operational and equipment problems (AVIATION WEEK Oct. 27, p. 15).

By Alexander McSurely3 min

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Headline News

Plane Seating

Proposed Civil Air Regulations, to restrict transport airplane seating to rearward-facing seats, would put an unnecessary restriction on the aircraft designer and engineer, in the opinion of William L. Littlewood, American Airlines vice president, engineering.
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Headline News

New Constitution Adopted By Alpa

An executive board of eight active airline pilots, plus the president, Clarence N. Saven, will govern the Air Line Pilots Assn. between conventions, delegates to the recent Chicago convention of the American Federation of Labor-affiliated organization decided.
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Headline News

Usaf Orders F-100 Into Production

USAF has ordered the F-100, a new and faster version of today’s best fighter, the North American Sabre, into production. The new fighter is designed to be capable of tangling with the forth-coming Soviet-built successors to the MiG-15 as successfully as its predecessors are meeting the sweptwing Russian jets over MiG Alley.
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Headline News

Gloster Meteor to Brazil

Brazilian Air Ministry is completing negotiations to buy approximately 70 Gloster Meteor Mk. 7 and Mk. 8 jet planes for nearly $17 million. The contract reportedly has already been signed by President Vargas.
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Aeronautical Engineering

Engineers Meet Afterburner Challenge

The afterburner has been in the jet engine picture for a good part of the turbine powerplant’s history. A lot of data on the afterburner’s thrust-adding potentialities, how it works and its general makeup has been collected. But there has been very little detail on specific design and construction.

By Irving Stone13 min

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Production

Titanium: Headache with a Future

Titanium has established itself as a very important member of the family of metals aviation engineers use. But like many other metals with promising general characteristics, getting down to specific aviation applications has posed problems.
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Air Transport

Boac Says Comets Now Pay Own Way

London—Contrary to some American opinion, British Overseas Airways Corp. is operating its initial Comet jet transport service at a profit. BOAC treasurer Basil Smalipiece told AVIATION WEEK that the first four months of Comet operations—carrying 4,536 fare-paying passengers on the London-Johannesburg-Springbok route —resulted in a net profit of $16,800.

By Robert Hotz7 min

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