August 29, 1955

August 29, 1955

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AVIONICS

Electronic Aids Speed Quality Control

By J. M. Thompson,S. Maszy10 min

FINANCIAL

Usaf Contracts

Letters

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AVIONICS

Electronic Aids Speed Quality Control

The quality requirements for materials that will he used in high-performance aircraft of the future make non-destructive testing imperative. But test techniques must he accurate, efficient and easy to use. For these reasons, electronic instruments are playing an increasingly important part in quality control.

By J. M. Thompson,S. Maszy10 min

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FINANCIAL

Usaf Contracts

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Letters

Nonskeds Defended Reading your editorial of July 25, 1955, I became disturbed over one paragraph which reads: North American was interested only in the high density traffic routes where by price cutting it could skim some of the cream from the existing air transport market.
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BUSINESS FLYING

First Royal Gull Executive Plane Ready to Make Market Debut

Milwaukee—The first Royal Gull, only twin-engine amphibian now in production in the U. S., is being completed here after a $300,000 six-month-long redesigning period. The first of the Italian-built five seaters, which have a retail list price of $74,500, f.a.f. Mitchell Field, Milwaukee, already has been sold to the Vest Aircraft and Finance Co., of Denver, its distributor in 11 Western States, Alaska and Mexico.
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AIR TRANSPORT

Government’s Airport-by-airport Distribution of $20 Million Fund

Federal grants totaling $20 million for 205 communities have been awarded by the Commerce Department in the first allotments of the fiscal 1956 Federal airport aid program. Programming of another $42,500,000 authorized for this year (AW Aug. 16, p. 124) is expected to be completed within the next three months.
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AVIONICS

Avionics’ Manufacturers to Form Backbone of Automation Industry

By Philip Klass4 min

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MANAGEMENT

Washington Roundup

Quarles Differs USAF’s new Secretary Donald A. Quarles lifted a few Air Force eyebrows in the Pentagon with statements he made on a radio broadcast about 10 days after replacing Harold E. Talbott. Replying to questions by John Randolph Hearst, Quarles made these statements: “I have no evidence that the Soviets can make a truly effective changeover to new equipment more rapidly than we.”

By Washington staff4 min

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MANAGEMENT

National Aircraft Show Awaits Record Crowd at Philadelphia

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Airlines Seek Rapid Write-off Extension

Industry fears suspension by ODM of quick tax benefits will inhibit transport aircraft purchases.
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AIR TRANSPORT

Mass Volume Helicopter Needed to Make Short-haul Profitable

By Gordon Conley4 min

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