April 5, 1954

April 5, 1954

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Light Fighter Stirs Design Controversy

By David A. Anderton8 min

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Aa Stresses Rigid Cost Control

By Frank Shea8 min

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Fewer Federal Dollars for Air Aid

By G. J. McAllister5 min

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Light Fighter Stirs Design Controversy

U. S. and British views on lightness differ. But so do our ideas on aircraft’s mission.

By David A. Anderton8 min

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Aa Stresses Rigid Cost Control

Biggest U. S. domestic airline credits postwar growth to close economy, forceful sales, modern equipment.

By Frank Shea8 min

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Fewer Federal Dollars for Air Aid

Air Coordinating Committee will ask strict control of airline subsidies and aircraft progress payments.

By G. J. McAllister5 min

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Critics Urge More Money for Airpower

Democrats charge proposed budget cramps Air Force, puts economy first and defense needs second. Symington questions possibility of reaching 137-wing goal with $11.2 billion requested by Administration.

By Katherine Johnsen5 min

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Is 32 the ‘witching’ Age? a Hostess Says ‘no!’

By William J. Coughlin4 min

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Air-rail Fight

Airlines ask fair chance to win federal business. ATA and nonskeds join to battle undercutting.
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B-26s Give French Edge in Indo-china

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Usaf Takes Action on Airline Fuel Bills

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New French Budget Aids Plane Builders

Paris—France’s languishing aircraft industry will get a small $2 5-million boost from the 1954 French air force budget, now before the Chamber of Deputies. The industry, feeling the squeeze over the last three years of lean budgets forced by the financial drain of the Indo-China war, does not have a plane ready for series production to compete with late models of North American Aviation’s F-86 Sabre jet or Britain’s Hawker Hunter.

By JOC2 min

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Mercy Plane

Convair delivers first of 26 C-131As to MATS. Each Samaritan carries up to 27 litter cases.
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