November 10, 1947

November 10, 1947

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Hughes Answers Senate Probe with First Flying Boat Flight

By SCHOLER BANGS5 min

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Improved Protective Design Offers Lightplane Safety Hope

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Industry Observer

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Hughes Answers Senate Probe with First Flying Boat Flight

200 ton, eight engine aircraft answers many questions in initial test hop over Los Angeles harbor.

By SCHOLER BANGS5 min

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Improved Protective Design Offers Lightplane Safety Hope

Crash injury research cites benefits from devices already available; plugs for more.
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Industry Observer

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Iam-uaw Vie for Aircraft Workers

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Letters

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Program Is Set for Aviation Clinic

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Flying the Novel Beech Twin-quad

Radical features of Beech Aircraft Corp.’s 20-passenger feederliner, now undergoing flight tests at Wichita, are plainly apparent in the latest photographs of the four-engine, two-propeller transport. The company claims four “firsts” for the plane: first airplane to be equipped with engines completely submerged in the wings; first to combine four engines with two propellers; first to have integral emergency landing keels on the bottom; and first large airplane to have a V tail.
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Republic Gets New Order for 130 P-84s

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Brewster Skeptical on Cost Plus Air Mail Payments

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Remove Flares

Public hearings on the crash of a United Airlines DC-6 near Bryce Canyon Airport fatal to all 52 persons aboard, opened last week at Panguitch, Utah, as the Civil Aeronautics Board ordered airlines to remove parachute flares from their DC-6’s.
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