July 13, 1953

July 13, 1953

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Army Orders New S-58 Copters

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AF Budget Nears Showdown in Congress

By Katherine Johnsen

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Detroit Labor Battles Pentagon on Kaiser

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Army Orders New S-58 Copters

Fiscal '54 program includes purchase of three other helicopters, tests of convertiplanes and fuselages.
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AF Budget Nears Showdown in Congress

Senate Military Appropriations Subcommittee recalls Vandenberg, Wilson for final testimony on cuts. House debate centers on Eisenhower’s support of the reduced funds and Twining’s stand in the fight.

By Katherine Johnsen

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Detroit Labor Battles Pentagon on Kaiser

Kaiser Motors Corp. and Chase Aircraft Co. officials awaited word at the end of last week of the outcome of Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott’s conference with Michigan congressmen and union leaders of the Detroit area. Talbott set the second Pentagon conference at the insistence of Detroit unionists.
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Temco to Stress Own Plane Designs

Temco Aircraft Corp. will concentrate henceforth on developing military aircraft of its own design and subcontracting major assemblies for other manufacturers, Robert McCulloch, president of the Dallas firm has revealed. The firm’s chief executive says Temco will build at its own expense flying articles of one or more of the trainer and fighter designs it submitted to the Air Force and Navy.
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New ARDC Chiefs: Putt, McCormack

Maj. Gen. Donald L. Putt succeeds Lt. Gen. Earle E. Partridge as Commander of the Air Research and Development Command, U. S. Air Force. Putt has been Vice Commander of ARDC at Baltimore. Partridge becomes Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at USAF Headquarters.
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Trained Pilot Shortage to Hit AF

New Air Force Chief says airmen are highly trained but underpaid technicians who hold edge on Reds.
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Latest Allied Jets Vie at Paris Air Show

Paris—France staged her twentieth international air show at Le Bourget Airfield to the accompaniment of a series of sonic “bangs” as jets broke through the sound barrier for the first time before the French public. The show was a great success.

By Ross Hazeltine

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Smith Is New Navy Air Secretary

James Hopkins Smith, Jr., naval aviator and former airline executive, last week was nominated Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air—an appointment forecast by AVIATION WEEK (July 6, p. 15). He succeeds John F. Floberg. Promoted this year to captain in the Naval Reserve, Smith enlisted in the Navy as a seaman 2nd class in 1931, later completed flight training and was commissioned a reserve ensign at Pensacola, Fla.
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Crash Barriers Save AF Jets

Nine of 10 fighters that crashed into runway gear suffered little more than damaged wheel fairings.
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Solar Delivers Small Generator for C-124

Solar Aircraft Co. will deliver this month the first of a large order for “the world’s smallest” gas-turbine electric generator for the Douglas C-124 Globemaster. Weight of the 50-hp. turbine, without generator, is estimated at 115 lb.— half that of a conventional independent power source of the same output, the company says.
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