| Show I 1 L i i i l- l li i tt ii k II i i G r r- r VA V t v r r i 1 HAMILTON STAND STANDARD PRO CHANC VO VOUGHT HT AIRPLANES HELICOPTERS HELICOPTERS' HELiCOPTERS HELiCOPTERS' L PRATT PRATT Tr a WHITNEY G NI J 11 il etl te L. L A REPORT RY OF PERFORMANCE AT tHOM HOME E AND ABROAD v VOL 3 NO 3 PU PUBLISHED BY Br UNITED AIRCRAFT CORPORATION EAST HARTFORD HARTFORD CONNECT CONNECTICUT cuT JUNE 1141 Res Research orth and Development Vital to 1 Hold Air Edge Say Soy Army ArmyN Navy vy Chiefs Chief hie J Head of Surplus B Board ard J Joins Join ins in h Wa Warning ing Lag Would Imperil U. U S. S Air Supremacy j w WASHINGTON ASHINGTON AI An conj Any lag in the cons CODe program of research aircraft den derel i io o improvement would seriously imperil the air supremacy of the United Stat States high Ar Army Navy and d officials warned atan exhibit here how quickly warplanes become me obsolete Robert A. A Lovett Assistant of ol L War for Air said U. U S. S air y had be been n attained only by constant f of existing design and by Uby contina contina- contina ous research and arid development to e new types of aircraft with Avith superior r per per J in the light of f combat exp experiences experience Statin Stating that surpluses of Liberty engines following World War I choked off our our our- aircraft industries and nd development i until til we fell way beh behind nd in m the f te- te warned We cannot annot afford to 1 mistake Secretary of the Navy Ralph A. A AJ I Bard said We must give eive our men the very vert t Air Blows als Licked Them I German Generals Say SayIN IN OCCUPIED GERI GERMANY NY United Nations jai air power was wu the thi greatest single factor in conquering Germany two to top-ranking top Wehr- Wehr macht officers conceded Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd Yon Ton said the Allies Allies' tremendous tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre- tre air IJu paralyzed the ht t turned mOO back the Ardennes Ardennes Ar Ar- dennes offensive and together with strong trong artillery ry protection p pre e- e rented bringing up German rese reserves na to repulse e lse the invasion f f fra France j I Marshal Albert Kc g also sai said that the Allied air superior superiority up i r rity ity was th the thO greatest single r for Gerr Germanys Germany's anys any's d defeat f at and admit admitted td his own headquarters rs' rs i had bid been bom bombed o out several lef tithes times best we can conceive and produce when they the r face fac the enemy For or this reason we m must st retire older models and replace them with new nc ones just as 15 rapidly as new V e developments develop develop- men ments are conc conceived ived Guy M. M Gill Gillette tte chairman Surplus Pro PlO p Property j pe perty ty Board explained that the necessity of keeping fighting aircraft up tip p to date created a. a great s 's surplus of planes planes-no esno longer mili militarily useful 1 Surplus is S is the i inevitable table pr by-pr by product ucto of pr progress he said said He proposed propoSe three st steps ps to Uto make disposal a a. positive i instrument for ad c. c ing excellence of An American i o f sale and operation of aircraft na national on l economy distribution of a arf rf l t to tc schools and c colleges f salvage and ra p ping ng of all other e Surplus so that t cb aeronautical equipment will be be for t J moved as to legitimate industry Americas America's pr progress in the ai j ft |
