September 14, 1953

September 14, 1953

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Foreign Buying

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Jets, Copters Have Field Day at Air Show

By Alexander McSurely6 min

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Af Slashes New Plane Orders

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Foreign Buying

The U.S. will finance the purchase of approximately $874 million in aircraft and aircraft materiel for foreign nations with Mutual Security funds during the current 1954 fiscal year. Foreign Operations Administration, headed by Harold Stassen, and Defense Department are now re-working the program at the $874 million level.
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Jets, Copters Have Field Day at Air Show

Dayton—Air Force pilots set four new world records and otherwise dominated flight events in the National Aircraft Show, biggest U. S. aviation exhibition of 1953, at James M. Cox Municipal Airport here over the Labor Day weekend. It was a field day for North American Aviation’s famous F-86 Sabre jet fighters, for Boeing’s B-47 Stratojet bombers and for Piasecki’s new YH-21 helicopter, which went home with two new world records—for helicopter speed and altitude.

By Alexander McSurely6 min

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Af Slashes New Plane Orders

Revised program accelerates F-100 production, cuts output of F-84Fs, F-86Fs, B-47s, trainers and helicopters.
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Usaf Takes Wraps Off X-1b

Supersonic research plane is shown at Dayton; static lineup also includes SAC’s new ETB-47B trainer.

By Erwin J. Bulban3 min

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Flying Testbed Steals U.k. Show

R.A.14-powered Canberra outperforms sweptwing fighters at Farnborough; Duke sets speed record.

By David A. Anderton3 min

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Rotor Milestone

Sikorsky Aircraft last week passed a helicopter production milestone with disclosure that it had built its 5,000th all-metal main rotor blade and more than 4,000 all-metal tail rotor blades. Bernard L. Whelan, Sikorsky general manager, said the production figure had been achieved since 1949 when metal blade production was started after three years of research and development at a cost of approximately $1 million.
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Details of Marines’ New Copter

First released drawing of the new Marine Sikorsky XHR2S-1 helicopter, designed to carry up to two squads (26 Marines) for an assault and yet be operational from an aircraft carrier, shows interesting new features of the design. The aircraft, designated S-56 by Sikorsky, is due for first flight late this year.
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Talbott Flies Jet

Secretary of the U. S. Air Force Harold E. Talbott on Aug. 18 visited Handley Page, Ltd., Radlett, England, where he inspected and flew the new RAF “super-priority” crescent-wing four-jet Victor bomber. Here is the text of a British interview with Talbott after the flight:
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Usaf Orders T34 Turboprop for C-133

USAF has ordered quantity production of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft’s 5,700-eshp T34 turboprop to power the new Douglas C-133 transport. P&WA general manager William P. Gwinn says the PT2F-1, commercial version of the T-34, has been withdrawn from sale “until a market at sufficient magnitude has been developed to make its commercial manufacture economically feasible.”
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Rockets Aid Cosmic Ray Studies

Using Deacon rockets, a group of scientists working with the U. S. Navy at the North Geomagnetic Pole, have completed a series of high-altitude studies of cosmic radiation and pressure. Geiger counters and ionization chambers were carried aloft to approximately 70,000 ft. inside the Deacons attached to balloons and then fired upwards.
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