December 16, 1957

December 16, 1957

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AIR TRANSPORT

Midway Traffic Jams Clog Entire System

By L. L. Doty

MISSILE ENGINEERING

Sphere, Glider Feasible for Re-Entry

By J. S Butz

BUSINESS FLYING

Bell Plans to Widen Helicopter Market

By Craig Lewis

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AIR TRANSPORT

Midway Traffic Jams Clog Entire System

Chicago’s overburdened Midway fights volume that exceeds capacity; customers shy away from O’Hare.

By L. L. Doty

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MISSILE ENGINEERING

Sphere, Glider Feasible for Re-Entry

New York—Soundness of U. S. space flight efforts for years to come may depend on the choice of a vehicle to win the second round in the struggle to control space, members of the American Rocket Society were told here recently. Goal of this second round, placing a man in orbit around the earth and bringing him back safely to the ground, has tremendous scientific and propaganda value for the nation reaching it first regardless of the manner in which it is accomplished.

By J. S Butz

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BUSINESS FLYING

Bell Plans to Widen Helicopter Market

Ft. Worth—Bell Helicopter Corp. is experimenting with new sales techniques in an effort to find the best method of merchandising helicopters. Sales programs have been extensively overhauled in the past six months in Bell’s search for the ideal commercial helicopter sales technique.

By Craig Lewis

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AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

How T53, T58 Performed in Flight Tests

New York—First details of actual flight test experience with helicopters fitted with new General Electric T58 and Lycoming T53 turboshaft engines indicate that this new generation of lightweight gas turbines provides significant breakthroughs in performance, reliability, safety and maintenance characteristics.

By Erwin J. Bulban

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MISSILE ENGINEERING

Regulus II, Polaris Operational in 2 Y ears

Edwards AFB, Calif.—Navy’s Chance Vought Regulus II Aerodynamic cruise missile and Lockheed Polaris fleet ballistic missile are both expected to reach fleet service at the same time in two years, Rear Adm. John E. Clark, director of Navy’s Guided Missile Division, announced here at the first public demonstration of Regulus II.

By Russell Hawkes

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AVIONICS

NEW AVIONIC PRODUCTS

Subminiature 10 w. resistor, Type RH-10, is available in tolerances from ±0.05% to ±3% with a resistance range from 0.05 to 30,000 ohms, depending on tolerance, specified. When panel-mounted on aluminum, RH-10 will dissipate 10 w., derated to zero at 275C. Free air rating is 6 w.
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MISSILE ENGINEERING

Scientists Disagree on Man’s Space Role

By George L. Christian

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AVIONICS

Technique May Offer 1,400C Transistor

Bedford, Mass.—Transistors that will operate to temperatures of 1,400C and frequencies above 100 me. have become a significant possibility as a result of new techniques developed here at Air Force Cambridge Research Center for producing diffused semiconductor junctions in crystals of silicon carbide.

By Bv James A. Fusca

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MISSILE ENGINEERING

Putting Free Radical Propulsion Into Rocket Offers Big Challenge

New York—Free radical propulsion, which on paper offers specific impulse increases from current 300 sec. to 1,000 sec., also offers formidable challenges, G. C. Szego and E. A. Mickle of General Electric Co.’s rocket section, Cincinnati, Ohio, told the American Rocket Society here.
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EDITORIAL

Vanguard's Real Success

Now that the hubbub over the first unsuccessful test launching of the Project Vanguard test satellite has subsided, this project should be allowed to proceed at its pre-Sputnik leisurely pace. This country lost some 90 days ago the race in which Vanguard was our entry.

By Robert Hotz

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