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15 AUGUST 1952 FLIGHT 3 HAMILTON STANDARD SUPPLIES VITAL EQUIPMENT FOR NEW JET BOMBERS — America's newest intercontinental jet bombers, the Boeing YB-52 and the Consolidated YB-60 each use equipment developed and produced by the Hamilton Standard Division of United Air craft. Both new aircraft are equipped with turbine engine starters and jet fuel controls supplied by Hamilton Standard. The starter is a comparatively new product, first announced in October 1951. It substantially reduces the time required for starting turbine power plants. Hamilton's jet fuel control, also a new product, is a device which governs turbine-wheel speeds and restricts by direct "sensing" the amount of fuel admitted to the combustion chambers when the engine's operating temperatures rise. CHANCE VOUGHT AIRCRAFT HAS DESIGNED AND BUILT TOP NAVY PLANES FOR 21 YEARS —June 1 marked the 35th anniversary of the founding of Chance Vought Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corporation. Its steady growth since 1917 has reflected the ad vanced ideas of the late Chance Milton Vought,.brilliant aeronautical engineer and founder of the company. The record of Chance Vought "firsts" is both long and impressive. The U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Langley, was equipped exclusively with Vought VE-9s. The Vought UO-1 was the first to prove the practicability of catapulting planes from battleships and cruisers; a Vought plane was the first folding-wing monoplane; and the F4.U Corsair, before World War II was the first 4.00-mile-an-hour fighter in the country. Today, Vought is producing two outstanding planes for the U.S. Navy. One is the AU-1, espec ially designed for close air support. Although extensively modified, it basically follows the original F#J Corsair design laid down in 1939 — a dramatic instance of Vought1s far-sighted designing* The other is the sleek-looking Cutlass, a tailless, swept-wing fighter, powered by twin-jet engines and afterburners. It was designed to out- and out-fight any other carrier-based aircraft in the world. Still another version of the Corsair in production in 1952 is the F^U-7. It is being made for the French Government under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program, Similar to the World War II F&J-4, the F4U-7 carries heavier armor and armament. SIKORSKY S-55 LS CERTIFIED FOR COMMERCIAL USE — The first transport-type helicop ter in the world to be approved for commercial operation, and to receive a certi ficate of airworthiness for export, is Sikorsky Aircraft's big S-55. It was grant ed these certifications by the Civil Aeronautics Administration last March. The S-55 is the basic design from which Sikorsky H-19 and HRS military versions were built. Both of these models have seen outstanding service in combat since their introduction there in the Spring of 1951. In fact the performance of these models has been so impressive that similar versions have been ordered by all branches of the U. S. military services. UNITED AIRCRAFT EXPORT CORPORATION EAST HARTFORD 8, CONNECTICUT, U.S.A. European Office: 3/5 Warwick House Street, London, S,W,I. England
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