Total of Air Force, Navy Planes
Less Than at Start of Korea War
By CHARLES CORODRY I
united Press Aviation Writer
Washington (UP) The total
number of U. S. Air Force and
Navy aircraft of all types is less
today than it was two years ago
when the Korean war broke out
and mobilization began.
The mid-1950 figure of 31,200
planes was diminished by sev
eral hundred. On the credit side,
there has been an increase in the
proportion of modern planes to
the total. The over-all Russian
figure is about 40,000 with a
vastly higher ratio of combat to
non-combat types, as indicated
by Congressional testimony.
Combat Planes Fewer
Trustworthy figures on the
status of American air power,
which has been made an election
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year issue, disclose that there are
fewer than 6,000 combat planes
in organized air force and Navy
units. There were 5,800 two years
ago. About 14 per cent now are
committeed to the Korean war.
The rest are deployed against all
other contingencies.
Russia has 19.000 combat
planes in organized units whose
identity and location are known
to American intelligence. These
do not include planes in reserve
and in satellite air forces. The
Red Air Force in the Korean
war, for example, appears to
have more jet fighters than the
total in the U. S. Navy and may
approach the number in the U.
S. Air Force.
Quality Improved
It is estimated that U. S. mili
tary plane production since the
Korean war started totals 9,000
to 9,500 in all categories com
bat, transport, trainer, liaison,
etc. Thus there has been a sub
stantial improvement in quality
of American air power during
the two years as older planes
have been replaced.
But production has not kept
pace with losses due to combat,
accidents, and obsolescense, and
shipments of planes (more than
2,100) by both the Air Force and
Navy to other countries under
the military aid program.
Air Force Grows
President Truman, answering
Sen. Robert A. Taft and other
critics, asserted in his Spring
field, Mo., speech on June 7 that
the Air Force now has 15,000 air
planes "in active use." He com
pared that figure with "less than
0,000" two years ago and said
the Air Force has grown from
48 to 91 wings.
The expansion was brought
about not alone from new pro
duction but also by federalizing
Air National Guard wings and
withdrawing planes from storage
until the bottom of the barrel
was visible. The Air Force had
8,200 planes of all types in stor
age in June, 1950. Gen. Nathan
F. Twining, acting Chief of
Staff, recently told the Senate
p. A
i there now are "virtually no re
serves.
Taft has said, and the Air
Force has not disputed, that there
are 6,000 planes in combat units
However, no more than 30 to
35 per cent of these arc modern
in the sense that they were built
after World War II.
Navy, Marines Overlooked
In comparing these 6.000
planes with Russia's "20.000
Taft seemed to overlook the
Navy and Marine combat
strength which would add 2,500
to 2,700 planes to the total.
The Navy, too, has drawn
heavily on its storage planes in
the past two years, reducing the
number from 4,800 to a pres
ent 1.450. In this way and from
new production, the Navy and
Marines have increased their ac
tive aircraft strength from 4,
300 two years ago to 6,500 now.
In addition there are now 2,-
000 planes in Navy reserve units
3,350 in suport planes in "pool,
pipeline and overhaul," and 350
miscellaneous types.
The total Navy inventory now
is 13,700, a reduction of 600
planes in the past two years.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS
Positions of home manage
ment supervisor at $3410 a year,
and farm management super
visor at $3410 to $4205 a year
are open for appointment by ex
aminations, Federal Civil Serv
ice announced today. Applica
tion forms and further informa
tion may be obtained from the
secretary of the Board of the
U. S. civil service examiners,
at any first-or-second class post
office, or from the director of
the Eleventh U. S. Civil Service
Region, 302 Federal Office
Building, Seattle 4, Washington.
A Nichols' Worth of
Comment On
BY HARMAN
United Pren
Washington (U.R) Those
political conventions in Chicago
next month will be hot affairs,
but the air
cooling folks
figure they
have the situa
tion licked.
Never be
fore has a na
tional political
conve ntlon
been air-cooled.
And air
c o n d i t ioning
Harmon Nichols people admit
it's pretty hard
to calculate the amount of steam
coming oui of 12,000 persons.
But one outfit, the Carrier
Corporation, has made a stab at
it. The Carrier experts, who pro
vided the cooling system at the
Internati onal Amphitheatre,
Spaur Returns To
Forestry Office;
Patrol Rates Set
Salem (U.R) George Spaur,
Oregon state forester, was back
at his home here Wednesday and
will resume his forestry post
next week. He has been on mill
tary leave as a colonel command
ing the 369th engineer boat and
shore regiment, Salem Army re
serve group.
Spaur attended the State For
estry Board meeting Tuesday, at
which Gov. Douglas McKay pre
sided as chairman. Items on the
agenda, however, were listed by
Acting State Forester D. L.
Phipps.
Patrol Rates Set
The forestry board set fire
patrol rates for all patrol units
in Oregon, except Coos county.
The rates for the Coos county
fire patrol district will be set
later after an agreement on rates
for grazing and forestry lands
has been reached by the owners
and the state forestry depart
ment. The rates for the total of 1,-
501,867 acres contained in the
15 districts of v.egon are based
on 1951 costs applied to the
number of acres comprising the
district, Phipps said.
The rates for fire protection
association districts per acre in
clude Clackamas-Marion, 10.8
cents; Douglas, 8.5 cents; East
ern Lane 14 cents; Western
Lane, 10.8: Klamath, 8.6; Linn,
11.5; and Walker range, S.7.
The rates established for state
units supervised by the forestry
department include: Central Ore
gon 5.9 cents; Grant Zone 1, 3.1
cents; North-central Oregon, 8.8;
Northeast Oregon 6.7; Northwert
Oregon, 10.3; Polk-Benton, 7.8
and Southwest Oregon 8.1.
This and That
W. NICHOLS
Future WHtn
where the meetings will be held,
have done some figuring.
They estimate that the body
heat let off by the 12,000 per
sons per session would be
enough to cook more than 15,000
hot dogs an hour. That would be
more than enough hot dogs to
make it once around.
The human hotplates, it is
estimated, also each hour can
produce enough heat to sizzle
more than 16,000 16-0 u nee
steaks.
The engineers have rigged up
machines to control humidity as
well as cooling comfort.
They claim, by the way, that
12,000 people attending each ses
sion for a week would evaporate
more than 25,000 gallons of pers
piration, which is really sweat
ing it out.
There will be a complete
change of air every hour on the
hour through the cooling sys
tem. That's going to knock re
porters away from one of their
best cliches the one about the
"smoke-filled hall."
Air Ducts Huge
Some of the ducts carrying air
in and out of the place are so
large that four sky-high modern
basketball players could walk
through the things, side by side,
without crowding one another or
stooping.
And how much heat does the
human body throw out, anyway?
Well, the experts say that each
person in the hall will throw off
heat at the rate of 550 British
thermal units per hour. BTU
means the amount of heat re
quired to raise the temperature
of one pound of water one de
gree Fahrenheit. The British
thought up the term, and our en
gineers use it now, too. For non
engineers, the experts put it
this way:
Equal 530 Pounds of Coal
The 600.000.000 BTU's re
leased In the big Chicago con
vention hall each hour equal
some 530 pounds of coal or 46
gallons of oil, or 6,600 cubic feet
of natural gas. This is enough
heat to steam up a three-bedroom
house for 10 days during
the worst cold spell of winter.
It takes only 350 of these units
to cook a pound of hot dogs. So
enough heat from the audience
in a single hour would be gen-!
erated to boil a chain of "dogs"
14 miles long.
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