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Aviation History
1952
1952 - 0690.PDF
6 FLIGHT 21 MARCH 19 UNITED AIRGRAM K.L.M. JOINS OTHERS IN PURCHASING CONVAIR 3A0s ~ An announcement from Amsterdam in mid-January revealed that the Royal Netherlands Airline, K.L.M., has ordered six Convair 34-0 passenger planes from the United States to use in the West Indian service". The new aircraft will be added to K .L.M.'s fleet which already includes 12 Convair 24.0s. This latest order brings the total of Convair 34-Os ordered for overseas lines '"-~---3>I-I-" -' to 29. Other airlines which have ordered the new airliners include': Aero 0/lt 3 aircraft; Philippine Airlines, 4J Compania Mexicana de Aviacion, 5; Aeronaves de Mexico,3; and Garuda Indonesian Airways, 85 all are equipped with Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp Engines and Hamilton Standard propellers. SIX B-36 BOMBERS IN NON-STOP TEXAS TO MOROCCO FLIGHT — Pratt & Whitney Wasp Major engines, assisted by turbojet engines, powered the six Convair B-36 bombers of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command which recently flew non-stop from Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas, to the new Sidi Slimane Air Base in French Morocco. The return trip, which took place a week later, was also flown non-stop. This achievement marked the first time that other than local flights had landed at the new field in French Morocco. The A,984-mile homeward flight was made in 24. hours. The 18 crewmen in each plane shrugged off the feat as routine. Their plane, the B-36, can fly a 10,000- pound bomb load 5,000 miles and return to base. HAMILTON STANDARD COCKPIT REFRIGERATION UNITS IN DEMAND — Substantial orders for cockpit refrigeration units have been received from the U. S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy by the Hamilton Standard Division of United Aircraft Corporation. The division's new product has been specified for installation in seven airplane types, including jet fighters and a turboprop transport. U.S. Air Force aircraft for which the units are specified are the swept-wing North American F-86D and F-86H Sabre jet and Lockheed F-94-C fighters. Similar units are being built for the U.S. Navy's FJ-2 Fury and the Chance Vought F7U Cutlass. Others include Convair's big R3Y turboprop flying boat and an unidentified fighter,. With the exception of the Cutlass, for which Hamilton Standard is supplying the entire air-conditioning system, the Hamilton Standard units are confined to the function of supplying cooling air to the aircraft cockpits. Already flying with the Hamilton Standard unit in operation are the F-86D and the F-94C.
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