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1952
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2 FLIGHT 13 JUNE 1952 UNITED AIRGRAM FRENCH AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURER LICENSED TO BUILD SIKORKSY S-55s —Signing of an agree ment under which the Sikorsky S-55 will be built in France by Aero du Sud-Est (Societe Nationale de Constructions Aeronautiques du Sud-Est) was announced on February 1, 1952. This latest agreement gives Sikorsky Aircraft two licensee manu facturers in Europe. Westland Aircraft, Limited, in England, has had a S-55 license since November, 1950. PAN AMERICAN TO USE SUPER-6 CLIPPERS —On May 1 Pan American World Airways will commence opera tion of a new trans-Atlantic" tourist-class serv ice with a new plane specifically designed for low fare, long-range, mass air transportation. The plane, to be known as the Super-6 Clipper, was developed by Douglas Aircraft Company from the DC-6B. It is powered with four Pratt & Whit ney R-2800 (CB-17) engines, each capable of developing 2,500 h.p. — approximately 100 more on take-off than DC-6B power plants. Range of the Super-6 is 800 miles longer than the DC-6B; gross weight allowance is approximately 7,000 pounds greater; and speed is higher. Pan American has 39 Super-6s on order, GRUMMAN AIRCRAFT UNVEILS NEW NAVY FIGHTER — A swept-wing successor to the Grumman "Panther11 is being turned out on the production lines of Grumman Aircraft at Beth Page, L.I., it was announced recently. The new aircraft, has been called the "Cougar," and like its predecessor is powered by a Pratt & Whitney J-48 Turbo-Wasp centri fugal-flow jet engine. Panthers have been used exten sively in Korea by the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. AIR FRANCE PLACES SUBSTANTIAL ORDER WITH HAMILTON STANDARD ~ Air, France, which operates the world's largest network of airline routes, recently announced the pur chase of a quantity of propellers and parts from the Hamilton Standard Division. The equipment will be used on a fleet of 10 Lockheed Constellation aircraft which is being built for Air France. The three-bladed propellers the airline is buying are the same basic type used on nearly all postwar airline planes in America and on about half of all the passenger planes in the world. Hamilton Standard propellers and accessories are now in use on more than 70.6 per cent of all European carriers— and counting Hamilton Standard licensees — approximately 81 per cent. PRATT & WHITNEY-POWERED BOAC STRATOCRUISERS SET NEW RECORD — British Overseas Air- Ways Corporation recently completed its second year of operation of Boeing Strato- cruisers on its North Atlantic route. The aircraft, powered by Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major engines, made 1,446 crossings which totalled 6,620,610 miles during the past year. The first year's operations with Stratocruisers accounted * for 930 North Atlantic crossings and 3,600,000 miles traveled.
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