July 20, 1953

July 20, 1953

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Talbott’s Stand

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Senator Blasts Air Force Management

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Detroit Air Show Draws 150,000

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Talbott’s Stand

AF refuses to reverse Kaiser cancelation. But labor wins company a chance to bid on C-123.
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Senator Blasts Air Force Management

Welker’s attack is prelude to bitter Senate showdown, expected this week, on pared fiscal 1954 budget. Idaho Republican says only two-thirds of current 93-wing force is equipped with modern aircraft.
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Detroit Air Show Draws 150,000

The nation’s biggest air show—the Sixth International Aviation Exposition at Detroit—played a different theme this year: no racing, no stunting, no aerobatics. Instead, the ground and air displays stressed aircraft capabilities, resulting in a constructive and educational exhibit that drew nearly 150,000 persons in four active days.
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Comet Din

Air committee’s protest keeps jet out of Idlewild. Says public not ready for ‘different noise.’
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Aimer Gets F-86 Bombs Closer

Seoul—Air Force has been trying out a bomb-aiming device in Korea that promises to increase accuracy of jet fighter-bombers by more than 50%. Definitely not a sight, the manual pip control is an adaptation to the automatic computing electronic gun sight.
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Air Base Cuts

House kills $400 million Wilson asked for 1954. New program is planned with money on hand.
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AD-4 Atomic Bombers In Carrier Service

Douglas AD-4B Skyraiders equipped to carry atomic bombs have been operating from carriers for nearly a year, the plane’s designer, E. H. Heinemann, stated at the recent San Francisco Bay commemoration of the fifitieth anniversary of the Wright brothers’ first flight.
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SEC Lists Convair Shift as Biggest Sale

Shift in control of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. from Atlas Corp. to General Dynamics Corp. was the biggest aviation stock transaction in May, Securities & Exchange Commission reports. Atlas sold a 400,000-share block of Convair stock, largest single holding in a U. S. aircraft industry to General Dynamic (AVIATION WEEK Apr. 6, p. 13). The major shift left Atlas Corp. with 30,300 common shares of Convair stock.
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Stratocruiser Ditching Procedure Under Fire

A controversy is brewing over the Civil Aeronautics Administration approved procedure to let Boeing Stratocruiser lounge passengers sit on the floor of the main cabin in the event of a ditching. Since seats in the lounge may be sold, there would be no seats available in the main cabin for lounge passengers were the airplane sold to capacity.
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Around the World In Ninety-Nine Hours

Using only scheduled airlines, Braniff International Airwavs’ publicist Horace C. Boren has flown around the world in 99 hr. 16 min. Braniff claims it was the first such flight in less than 100 hr. Boren’s 21,000-mi. trip from New York and return bettered mark set last year by Jean-Marie Audibert of France of 115 hr. 39 min. and the 119-hr. 47-min. flight made in 1949 by Maj. Thomas G. Lanphier, Jr., Convair vice president.
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