October 5, 1953

October 5, 1953

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Usaf Orders H-bomb Fleet, More F-100s

By Robert Hotz5 min

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Business Flying Gets Data Service

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U.s., Britain Battle for Jet Speed Record

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Usaf Orders H-bomb Fleet, More F-100s

Large -scale production of B-52s is slated for Boeing’s Seattle plant; AF sets up Wichita as second source. Talbott forecasts increase in new plane contracts, end of cutbacks in airframe and engine programs.

By Robert Hotz5 min

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Business Flying Gets Data Service

Business flying, the industry that mushroomed overnight after World War II, has had many growing pains in its rapid rise, and reputable information about the field is scarce. A newly organized information service devoted exclusively to corporations operating business aircraft hopes to correct this.
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U.s., Britain Battle for Jet Speed Record

Navy was preparing for another attempt to wrest the world speed record from the British last week with the Douglas F4D Skyray. First series of speed runs by Lt. Cmdr. James Verdin at Thermal, Calif., earlier in the week saw the F4D post an average of 742.7 mph. This was well over the 737.3-mph. mark set by Mike Lithgow in the Supermarine Swift last week in Libya, but was about 2 mph. short of the 1% margin required for an official record.
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Hughes Patchup

Revolt narrows down to four-man walkout. Owner claims avionics production not affected.
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Canted Forrestal

Navy redesigns its super carrier to new concept. Essex and Midway types slated for conversion.
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Acc to Set New National Air Policy

Details on how the Air Coordinating Committee will tackle the job of formulating a new national aviation policy for President Eisenhower will be revealed by Robert B. Murray, Jr., Undersecretary of Commerce for Transportation, in a speech Oct. 13 before the National Defense Transportation Assn, at Louisville, Ky.
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Airline Rate Cuts Hold Key to Future: Hildred

International Air Transport Assn, director general Sir William Hildred says in his annual report to IATA this week that passenger and freight rate cuts will continue to be the key to airline growth and increasing public benefit. “All we ask for now is a few years in which (the) fall in unit revenue can be translated by an increase in passenger volume into greater revenue total,” he says.
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Talbott Calls Captive Mig Too Old

The $100,000 MiG-15 flown into Kimpo Air Base would not be worth much to USAF because the jet is a couple of years old, Air Force Secretary Flarold E. Talbott said last week. He said keeping the MiG “would violate the spirit of the armistice.”
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Ata Reports on Nonsked Business

An Air Transport Assn. report reveals that nonsked airlines now fly 7 to 8% of total domestic passenger-miles. The annual statistical study on nonskeds by the scheduled airlines’ association also reports: • North American Airlines, nonsked “syndicate,” flies nearly 2% of total domestic scheduled and nonsked passenger-miles and one-third of domestic nonsked business.
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Is Usaf Testing Russian Jet?

Tokyo—A veil of secrecy dropped over a fugitive MiG-15 by Washington raised the serious question last week of whether U. S. Air Force is obtaining flight performance data on the Communist jet fighter. USAF had hoped to wring out the Russian-built combat plane in the United States after a North Korean pilot delivered it to Kimpo Airfield, Korea (AVIATION WEEK Sept. 28, p. 13), but an order by Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson halted the move.

By A. W. Jessup2 min

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