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Aviation History
1954
1954 - 1818.PDF
25 JUNE 1954 FLIGHT LEADERSHIP DEMANDS CONSTANT ACHIEVEMENT WORLD'S LEADING JET TRAINER, Lockheed's famous T-33, today serves 12 nations in 22 countries. In the United States 9 out of 10 jet pilots receive their training in this dependable high-speed two-place jet trainer. GUIDED MISSILE andpilotlessaircraft research is ad vancing rapidly at Lockheed.Here engineer-scientists from the Missile Systems Division test top-secret developments to meet problem of supersonic speeds vet unattained. Scientists Unveil Radical Forms of Flight High-Speed Navy Fighter Takes Off Straight Up, Lands by Backing Straight Down on Its Tail Today's biggest news in aviation is the Navy's XFV-I built by Lockheed—first successful vertical-rising plane designed on a different concept from the helicopter. A powerful Allison turbo-prop engine with two jet turbines turning counter- rotating propellers lifts the XFV-i straight up, rocket fashion. It levels off for speeds in the 500-m.p.h. class, lands on its tail. Exclusive feature of the Lockheed XFV-I is its added ability to make con ventional takeoffs and landings—very im portant to pilot training, because it permits flying practice at high altitude prior to the pilot's first tail-down landing. The XFV-i makes every open space a landing field, every ship an aircraft carrier. Points to the day when most U. S. fighters may take off vertically from anywhere. FASTER THAN EVER is the Navy's long-range P2V patrol bomber now that it has two lands of power—with jet pods recently added to its turbo-compound engines. Increases its effectiveness in vital shore defense. Photo shows the P2V Neptune flying on jet engines only. Lockheed AIRCRAFT CORPORATION BURBANK, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. LOOK TO LOCKHEED FOR LEADERSHIP FAMOUS CONSTELLATIONS AND SUPER CONSTELLATIONS ARE THE CHOICE OF 25 WORLD AIRLINES: in the U.S.—Capital Air lines, Delta-C & S Air Lines, Eastern Air Lines, Northwest Orient Air Lines*, Pan American World Airways, Seaboard & Western*, TWA-Trans World Air Lines; in Europe — Air France, BO AC (Great Britain), Iberia (Spain) , KLM (Holland), TAP Portugal*, Lufthansa (Germany)*; in North and South America — Avianca (Colombia), Cubana (Cuba), LAV (Venezuela), Panair do Brasil, Trans-Canada, Varig (Brazil)*; in Asia—Air India, El Al (Israel), Pakistan International, Thai Airways (Thailand)*; in Africa— South African Airways; in Australia — Qantas Empire Airways. *Soon in service NEW FLIGHT FORMS are stu died by Lockheed scientists to meet sonic and thermal problems of ultra high speed, higher altitudes. At Lock heed's Hall of Science each development represents years of research, testing, proving — in man's continual invasion of the unknown.
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